Study of Plastic Scintillator based Reactor Neutrino Detector

Recently nuclear power plant becomes one of the impol1ant electric power sources to reduce the greenhouse gasses emission. Nuclear reactor fuel consists of the uranium-235 e J5 U) enriched uranium and produces the Iheml;1! energy via J1ucle.:1.f fission process. Through the reactor opcrdtion. uranium-2]S (~U) fission also produces the plutonium- 239 e·wpu). which should be strictly under controlled to avoid the diversion to the nuclear wcapon for it nonproliferation and safeguard. At this Imint. monitoring oflhe nuclear power plant operation and its fuels exchangc have important role for the peacefulnuclcarcncrgy usage. [n lhis study. we pnxluce the prototype of nuclear reactor monilor based on lhc plastic scintillator detecting al1ti~neUlrinos. which produced thmugh the several times of beta-decay from the nuclear fission products. III addition. wc apply the rnonitoring peliormance simulation assuming Ihe I ton size detector placed VCI)' closely lo [he reaclOr core.