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Annual report 1991. Operation of the High Flux Reactor (1992)

AuteurJoint Research Centre Petten
Datum1992
Classificatie 1.01.8.51/15 (OLP - HFR PETTEN)
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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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