THE BR1 REACTOR: A VERSATILE TOOL FOR FISSION EXPERIMENTS

摘要

The BR1 reactor located at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK·CEN in Mol,Belgium, is a research reactor with a variety of irradiation possibilities. Thanks to itslarge reactor core, its flexible operation and its different irradiation facilities, this reactoris particularly suited for in-core and ex-core neutron physics experiments. This papergives a general description of the BR1 reactor, with special emphasis on the availableirradiation possibilities. Then some examples of fission experiments that have beenperformed in the past will be referred to and two ongoing projects related to fission willbe presented.