{"title":"Photofission in fission chambers","authors":"R.N. Glover","doi":"10.1016/0369-643X(58)90083-5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>During shielding measurements in water on LIDO a large discrepancy was observed between fast neutron flux measurements with fission chambers and those using activation techniques. This effect is shown to be due to photofission of the fissionable material in the chambers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100970,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Instruments","volume":"3 6","pages":"Pages 320-322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1958-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0369-643X(58)90083-5","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nuclear Instruments","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0369643X58900835","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
During shielding measurements in water on LIDO a large discrepancy was observed between fast neutron flux measurements with fission chambers and those using activation techniques. This effect is shown to be due to photofission of the fissionable material in the chambers.