title: Review of neutron calibration facilities and monitoring techniques: new needs for emerging fields.
abstract: Neutron calibration facilities and monitoring techniques have been developed since the middle of the 20th century to support research and nuclear power energy development. The technical areas needing reference neutron fields and related instruments were mainly cross section measurements, radiation protection, dosimetry and fission reactors, with energy ranging from a few millielectronvolts to about 20 MeV. The reference neutron fields and calibration techniques developed for these purposes will be presented in this paper. However, in recent years, emerging fields have brought new needs for calibration facilities and monitoring techniques. These new challenges for neutron metrology will be exposed with their technical difficulties.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety, Saint-Paul lez Durance 13115, France vincent.gressier@irsn.fr.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gressier
mesh_terms: D016754:Boron Neutron Capture Therapy; D002138:Calibration; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D009502:Neutrons; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000379:methods; D011835:Radiation Protection; D011868:Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis; D011874:Radiometry
chemical_list: D011868:Radioisotopes