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A BNCT facility is under design using the IR beam port of HANARO, 30 MW open-tank-in pool type research reactor. Since all beam tubes in HANARO are optimized for low energy neutron experiments—tangential tubes with small nose area at the position of peak thermal neutron flux in the heavy water reflector, the filtered epithermal neutron flux is high enough neither for NCT research nor for patient treatment. If proper filters are used, however, reasonably high thermal neutron flux with low fast neutron and gamma contamination could be obtained, which is proper for NCT research and superficial cancer treatment.
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Jun, B.J., Lee, B.C. (2001). A NCT Facility Design at HANARO. In: Hawthorne, M.F., Shelly, K., Wiersema, R.J. (eds) Frontiers in Neutron Capture Therapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1285-1_44
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