Monitoring Akkuyu nuclear reactor using antineutrino flux measurement

Authors

SERTAÇ ÖZTÜRK
AYTÜL ADIGÜZEL
VEYSİ ERKCAN ÖZCAN
NAFİZ GÖKHAN ÜNEL

DOI

10.3906/fiz-1604-20

Abstract

We present a simulation-based study for monitoring Akkuyu nuclear power plant's activity using antineutrino flux originating from the reactor core. A gadolinium-doped water Cherenkov detector was designed and optimization studies were performed using the Geant4 simulation toolkit. It was found that the bottom (or top) face of the target should be instrumented by six 10-inch-diameter photomultiplier tubes with photon detection efficiency of about 35% and the optimum Gd concentration was found to be about 0.3%-0.5%. The first study on the design of a monitoring detector facility for Akkuyu nuclear power plant is discussed in this paper.

Keywords

Nuclear reactor, neutrino, Cherenkov, detector, simulation

First Page

41

Last Page

46

Recommended Citation

ÖZTÜRK, SERTAÇ; ADIGÜZEL, AYTÜL; ÖZCAN, VEYSİ ERKCAN; and ÜNEL, NAFİZ GÖKHAN (2017) "Monitoring Akkuyu nuclear reactor using antineutrino flux measurement," Turkish Journal of Physics: Vol. 41: No. 1, Article 5. https://doi.org/10.3906/fiz-1604-20
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/physics/vol41/iss1/5