Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors in Reactor Physics Experiments

Solid state nuclear track detectors can be used in various reactor physics experiments to measure fission density distributions and fast- and thermal-neutron flux distributions. The use of a microdensitometer to determine track densities on the surface of irradiated detectors has proven to be very convenient. For fast neutron detection, comparison with activation detectors shows a higher sensitivity for the solid state nuclear track detectors.