SUMMARY

Silicon Carbide based radiation detectors have an exceptional capacity to perform in harsher radiation environments due to favorable thermal properties and stability through high fluences. In combination with the capability to accurately measure thermal and fast neutrons and discriminate from gamma-rays, SiC becomes an obvious candidate for nuclear instrumentation in advanced reactor designs. To effectively put this technology into practice, a detection system will be evaluated against several parameters to ensure an adequate signal is available and detector performance is maintained over a desired lifetime. Weighting factors for detector location, shielding, and size are developed so that the work
may be extrapolated to other projects.