A brief overview of the experimental activities at the Section for Nuclear and Reactor Physics, KTH will be given. Although a large fraction of the activities are external to KTH a review of in-house instrumentation is included.
The Reactor Physics group is focussed on studies of Transmutation of Spent Nuclear Fuel. The experimental programme includes irradiation studies on Pu nitride nuclear fuel at the Studsvik research reactor, production of Am nitride fuel in collaboration with ITU, Karlsruhe, kinetic an reactivity analysis of a neutron generator driven reactor (MUSE) in collaboration with Cadarache, France. Experiments with a "lead bismuth loop" and liquid metal spallation targets are also performed.
The Nuclear Physics group has an experimental programme in applied as well as basic nuclear physics. The applied research includes studies of single-event upset and other radiation induced phenomena in electronic circuits as well as development of scintillation detectors for e.g. medical imaging purposes. Detectors and instrumentation for basic research are also being developed. Within a project for development of a novel type of Ge detectors for "gamma-ray tracking", studies of electrically segmented Ge detectors are performed. Furthermore, a low-background facility at SCFAB is being developed in collaboration with Nuclear Physics, SU.