Development of Prototype Neutron Flux Monitor for ITER

The prototype neutron flux monitor consists of a high purity 235U fission chamberdetector and a "blank" detector, which is a fissile material free detector with the same dimensionas the fission chamber detector to identify noise issues such as noise coming from gamma rays. Themain parameters of the fission chamber assembly that have been measured in the laboratory areconfirmed to approach the technological level of the International Thermonuclear ExperimentalReactor (ITER) in the near future. This prototype neutron flux monitor will be further developedto become a neutron flux monitor suitable for the operation phase of D-D fusion on the ITER.