Analysis of the Fall-1989 two-meter box test bed experiments performed at the Army Pulse Radiation Facility (APRF)
Abstract
This report summarizes the results of a benchmark analysis of the Monte Carlo Adjoint Shielding Code System (MASH) against a series of experiments performed at the Army Pulse Radiation Facility (APRF) in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The series of experiments was performed in the Fall of 1989 and involved experimentalists from APRF; the Defense Research Establishment Ottawa, Canada (DREO); Bubble Technology Industries, Canada, (BTI); and the Establishment Technique Central de l'Armement, France (ETCA). The 'benchmark' analysis of MASH is designed to determine the capability of MASH to reproduce the measured neutron and gamma ray integral and differential (spectral) data. Results of the 'benchmark' analysis are to be used in the recommendations to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Panel 7 Ad Hoc Group of Shielding Experts for replacing the Vehicle Code System (VCS) with MASH as the reference code of choice for armored vehicle nuclear vulnerability calculations.
- Publication:
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Proposed for presentation at the Meeting on New Horizons in Radiation Protection and Shielding
- Pub Date:
- 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991nhrp.meet.....J
- Keywords:
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- Adjoints;
- Armor;
- Gamma Rays;
- Military Vehicles;
- Monte Carlo Method;
- Neutron Irradiation;
- Radiation Dosage;
- Radiation Shielding;
- Test Stands;
- Flux (Rate);
- Radiation Damage;
- Radiation Detectors;
- Radiation Measurement;
- Radiation Protection;
- Tissues (Biology);
- Vulnerability;
- Nuclear and High-Energy Physics