Update on reactors and reactor instruments in Asia

✍ Scribed by K.R. Rao

• Book ID: 103936563
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 427 KB
• Volume: 174
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-4526
• DOI: 10.1016/0921-4526(91)90647-w

✦ Synopsis

Invited paper

The 1980s have seen the commissioning of several medium flux (~10 ~4 neutrons/cm 2 s) research reactors in Asia. The reactors are based on indigenous design and development in India and China. At Dhruva reactor (India), a variety of neutron spectrometers have been established that have provided useful data related to the structure of high-T¢ materials, phonon density of states, magnetic moment distributions and micellar aggregation during the last couple of years. Polarised neutron analysis, neutron interferometry and neutron spin echo methods are some of the new techniques under development. The spectrometers and associated automaton, detectors and neutron guides have all been indigenously developed. This paper summarises the developments and on-going activities in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.