Our new paper entitled article “Experimental estimation of the delayed neutron fraction βeff of the MAESTRO core in the MINERVE zero power reactor” has been published in the Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology. It is available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8MXgXmUDmiuPrfBZNzdZ/full The paper is about a new and very cool method to measure the delayed neutron fraction of a reactor core at zero power. The method was developed and tested during an experimental campa

Our paper, “Estimation of the delayed neutron fraction b_eff of the MEASTRO core in MINERVE Zero Power Reactor” was presented at the PHYSOR 2014 conference in Kyoto, Japan. This work has been done in collaboration with researchers from  CEA DEN/CAD/DER/SPEx/LPE headed by Dr. Patrick Blaise and with researchers from NRCN. This work summarizes the results and analyses of a set of measurements, performed at ZPR MINERVE in Cadarache during September 2013, in order to estimate the