The invention relates to a
boron carbide nuclear
neutron absorbing material and a preparation method. The preparation method comprises the following steps: putting the three raw materials including 85percent by weight to 98.5 percent by weight of
boron carbide powder (nuclear-grade
powder), 1 percent by weight to 5 percent by weight of
solid phase
sintering additives and 0.5 percent by weight to10 percent by weight of
liquid phase sintering additives into a
ball mill mixing container; adding a
polymer material as a soft template and adding deionized water to perform balling milling and pulping to obtain the
slurry, wherein the
solid phase content of the
slurry is 40 percent by weight to 70 percent by weight;
processing the
slurry by using a
spray drying granulating
machine to obtain granulating
powder; pressing the granulating powder by adopting the processes of
dry pressing molding or cold isostatic pressing molding under the pressure of 50MPa to 300MPa to form green bodies; and putting the green bodies into a
vacuum furnace, keeping a temperature for 0.5 hour to 5 hours under the temperature of 2000 DEG C to 2300 DEG C by adopting a vacuum or constant-pressure
sintering way soas to complete sintering to obtain
boron carbide ceramics. The
boron carbide nuclear
neutron absorbing material and the preparation method disclosed by the invention have the advantages that by usingthe
boron carbide nuclear-grade powder as a
raw material and the
polymer material as the soft template, the
boron carbide nuclear
neutron absorbing material is prepared; the boron carbide nuclear neutron absorbing material has the advantages of low cost,
batch production, low free carbon content and high
neuron absorption efficiency, is suitable for preparing large-sized protection parts with complicated shapes, and has good application prospect in small
nuclear reactor outer-layer protection and other types of
nuclear reactor protection.