Zirconium isotope found to be a neutron poison

Stephan Heinitz; Ulli Koester

doi:10.1038/s41567-019-0452-5

Zirconium isotope found to be a neutron poison

Stephan Heinitz
, Ulli Koester

Research output › peer-review

Abstract

Zirconium alloys are widely used as cladding material in nuclear reactors due to their neutron transparency. Now, it is shown that 88Zr has a surprisingly high neutron capture cross-section exceeding that of other zirconium isotopes by six orders of magnitude.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	208-209
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Physics
Volume	15
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0452-5 https://doi.org/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0838-z
State	Published - 18 Feb 2019

Access to Document

10.1038/s41567-019-0452-5License: Unspecified
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0838-zLicense: Unspecified

Cite this

@article{41517e26e09a4a3d9470f4904bb3a94b,

title = "Zirconium isotope found to be a neutron poison",

abstract = "Zirconium alloys are widely used as cladding material in nuclear reactors due to their neutron transparency. Now, it is shown that 88Zr has a surprisingly high neutron capture cross-section exceeding that of other zirconium isotopes by six orders of magnitude. ",

keywords = "Zirconium, neutron, cross-section",

author = "Stephan Heinitz and Ulli Koester",

note = "Score=10 - Comment for the News \& Views section on the recent 88Zr cross-section article that appeared in Nature vol 565, ppp 328–330 (2019); The surprisingly large neutron capture cross-section of 88Zr.",

year = "2019",

month = feb,

day = "18",

doi = "10.1038/s41567-019-0452-5",

language = "English",

volume = "15",

pages = "208--209",

journal = "Nature Physics",

issn = "1745-2473",

publisher = "Nature Research",

number = "3",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Zirconium isotope found to be a neutron poison

AU - Heinitz, Stephan

AU - Koester, Ulli

N1 - Score=10 - Comment for the News & Views section on the recent 88Zr cross-section article that appeared in Nature vol 565, ppp 328–330 (2019); The surprisingly large neutron capture cross-section of 88Zr.

PY - 2019/2/18

Y1 - 2019/2/18

N2 - Zirconium alloys are widely used as cladding material in nuclear reactors due to their neutron transparency. Now, it is shown that 88Zr has a surprisingly high neutron capture cross-section exceeding that of other zirconium isotopes by six orders of magnitude.

AB - Zirconium alloys are widely used as cladding material in nuclear reactors due to their neutron transparency. Now, it is shown that 88Zr has a surprisingly high neutron capture cross-section exceeding that of other zirconium isotopes by six orders of magnitude.

KW - Zirconium

KW - neutron

KW - cross-section

UR - https://ecm.sckcen.be/OTCS/llisapi.dll?func=ll&objaction=overview&objid=33127564

U2 - 10.1038/s41567-019-0452-5

DO - 10.1038/s41567-019-0452-5

M3 - Article

SN - 1745-2473

VL - 15

SP - 208

EP - 209

JO - Nature Physics

JF - Nature Physics

IS - 3

ER -