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Annual report 1991. Operation of the High Flux Reactor (1992)
| Author | Joint Research Centre Petten |
| Date | 1992 |
| Classification | 1.01.8.51/15 (PETTEN RESEARCH LOCATION - HFR) |
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INTRODUCTION The High Flux Reactor (HFR) Petten belongs to the Institute for Advanced Materials of the Joint Research Centre of the European Communities. The HFR is a high power (45 MW) multi-purpose research reactor. It provides of high flux in-core positions for irradiation testing of reactor materials, as well as for high grade radioisotope production. A large, versatile, pool-side facility outside the reactor vessel is extensively used for transient testing of reactor fuel, as well as for processing of materials with neutrons, such as silicon transmutation doping. In addition, 12 horizontal beam tubes are available for serving a neutron scattering laboratory and a number of other purposes. The present programme largely profits from this variety of irradiation possibilities. It covers the fields of nuclear fission energy with fuel and structural materials investigations, thermo-nuclear fusion with damage studies on all kinds of structural materials as well as performance testing of blanket breeder materials, fundamental research with neutrons mainly in solid state physics and materials science, large scale radioisotope production for medical and industrial applications, neutron activation analysis, neutron radiography and research towards cancer therapy with neutrons (boron neutron capture therapy). Full attention is given to quality assurance towards safe and efficient operation of the reactor which in itself is an explicit programme objective. In 1991, the achieved performance record was satisfactory in all respects: - high availability, 266 operation days - high utilisation, 69% of capacity - low radiation exposure of staff and negligible release of radioactivity to the environment - as scheduled progress on maintenance and upgrading of the reactor.
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