Radiation shielding and dose assessment of the cyclotron facility at inrne-bas

The Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is working on the construction of a cyclotron centre. The facility is on a design level. At this stage of the project, an important task is the radiation shielding assessment of the facility. Nowadays, the Monte Carlo transport codes have become the tool of choice for solving this type of problem. In the current paper, the transport code FLUKA is used for the calculations. It is widely applied for shielding design and analysis of accelerators and their components. The distributions of the radiation fields inside and outside the cyclotron bunker are presented in this paper. Both different irradiation scenarios and bunker configurations are considered in the conducted Monte Carlo simulations. These results will be used as a guidance in site planning.