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Article : #396
Name of All Authors : S.L. Butarbutar, G.R. Sunaryo, J. Meesungnoen, J.-P. Jay-Gerin
Article Title : Temperature Dependence of the Primary Species Yields of Liquid Water Radiolysis by 0.8 MeV Fast Neutrons
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Referee 1
Please concise the abstract We have reduced the length of the abstract Some parts of this manuscript are similar with the
reference no. 32 even some of the sentences are the same. Please modified it (or remove the parts if the information have been already mentioned in the ref no. 32)
We have modified it and also have removed the similar sentences
Please emphasized the novelty of the present results compared with previous
results/publication (ref. no 32)
The novelty of this present work is that we want to reproduce the chemical yield of radiolytic species that formed in water radiolysis induced by the fast 0.8 MeV neutrons incidents as we have data to compare with. And also we wanted to see the energy dependence of the chemical yield of the free radicals and molecular species, if there is any profile similarity between the fast 0.8 MeV neutrons (this present work) with fast 2 MeV neutrons (such as in ref. no 32)
Please mention the important assumption in the calculation/simulation (e.g number of neutrons)
The important assumption in our calculation is: we simplified that neutron produced mainly protons recoil
Referee 2
In the conclusion, the authors should clarify or provide a brief comparison with the previous results obtained by Sunaryo et al in ref [6].
Because both works dealts with the same case, but using different code to perform the simulation
The difference of this present work with the work in ref [6] is that there are (in line 64)
“many updated informations which have been applied into the code that developed by J.-P. Jay-Gerin group in Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada as follow.
Firstly, as the information of the rate constant of the reaction up to 350 oC
between species are now available according to the report compiled by Elliot and Bartels
[7]. Secondly, the rate constants of two reactions that remain debatable which are self-recombination of hydrated electron (e-aq) above ~150 oC [7,8] and oxidation reaction of water by hydrogen radical atom above
~200 oC [9-12] are incorporated in the simulation”. These most two update information were not included in their simulation.
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