Organisation: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR),
Frank Lab. of Neutron Physics (FLNP)
Installation: IBR-2, fuel: PuO2, peak unperturbed Øth=270·1014
n/cm²s,
Type: pulsed reactor since 1977, average power 2
MW
Address: 141980 Dubna, Russia
Home page: http://nfdfn.jinr.ru/flnph/
Contact: A.A.Beliakov, E.P.Shabalin
Phone / fax: +7-09621-65657 or -65253, fax -65085 or -65882
e-mail: beliakov@nf.jinr.ru
CNS: one,
operational since 1999
Moderator: CH4 temperature: 30 - 70 K
volume: 1.2 L
phase: solid
specific power: 100 mW/g working pressure: 0.6
MPa
heat removal: directly cooled
performance: gain factor = 20
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Remarks: strong radiolysis effects
recent publications: ACoM IV in 2/99, and ICANS-XV
(Tsukuba 2000): 21.5
E.P.Shabalin studies cold moderators for ESS
Project: Modernization programme IBR-2M with three CNS
(operational in 2010)
ICANS18_Id147: "Complex of moderators for the
IBR-2M reactor" by V. Ananiev, A. Belyakov, & al.
ICANS18_Id178: "Experimental Study of Swelling
of Irradiated Solid Methane during Annealing" by E. Shabalin, & al.
ICANS18_Id213: "The experimental and calculated
density of vibrational states and UCN loss coefficients of perflu"
by Yuri Pokotilovski, & al.