Authors & Affiliations
Ignatyuk A.V., Zolotarev K.I., Lunev V.P., Manokhin V.N., Tertychnyj G.Ya.
State Scientific Centre - A.I. Leipunsky Institute for Physics and Power Engineering,
Obninsk, Russia
Abstract
The available experimental data were analysed and the gamma-ray spectra and production cross-sections evaluated for inelastic neutron interaction with the nuclei of the technological and structural materials: B, C, O, Na, Mg, S, Cl, V, Ni, Zr, Nb, Mo, Pb, Bi.
Keywords
production cross-section, gamma-ray spectra, inelastic neutron
interaction, B, C, O, Na, Mg, S, Cl, V, Ni, Zr, Nb, Mo, Pb, Bi, structural material, reactor
Article Text (in English, PDF, Translated by IAEA)
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