RESEARCH STUDIES PERFORMED USING THE CAIRO FOURIER DIFFRACTOMETER FACILITY

This report represents the results of research studies performed using the Cairo Fourier diffractometer facility (CFDF), within 10 years after it was installed and put into operation at the beginning of 1996. The main components of the CFDF were supplied by the IAEA according to the technical assistance project EGY/1/022. Plenty of measurements were performed, since then; yielding several publications, both in local and international scientific periodicals; and 8 M.Sc. & Ph.D. degrees from Egyptian Universities. Besides, a new approach for the analysis of the neutron spectra measured using the CFDF; applying especially designed interface card, along with its proper software program, instead of the reverse time of flight (RTOF), Finnish make, analyzer originally attached to the facility. It has been verified that the new approach cnn successfully replace the RTOF analyzer; significantly decreasing the time of measurement; and saving the reactor's operation time. A special fault diagnostic system program was developed and tested for caring and handling the possible failures of the CFDF. Besides the new developments required for the CFDF for industrial applications in wide scale, are also considered.