A spectrometric system was developed for spent fuel burnup evaluations at the LVR-15 research reactor, which employed highly enriched (36%) IRT-2M-type fuel. Such a system allows the measurement of fission product axial distribution by measuring certain nuclides, such as , , and their ratios, respectively. Within the paper, a comparison between experimental data provided by the spectrometric system and calculations in operational code called NODER is provided.
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