High power linear accelerators for tritium production and transmutation of nuclear waste [electronic resource].
- Published
- Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1990.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy. - Physical Description
- Pages: (15 pages) : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Summary
- Proton linacs driving high-flux spallation neutron sources are being considered for transmutation of nuclear waste and production of tritium. Advances in high-current linac technology have provided a basis for the development of credible designs for the required accelerator, which has a nominal 1.6-GeV energy, and a 250-mA cw current. A beam with these parameters incident on a liquid lead-bismuth (Pb-Bi) target can generate a thermal neutron flux of up to 5 × 10¹⁶ n/cm²-s in a cylindrical blanket surrounding the spallation source. This high flux can produce tritium through the ⁶Li(n,α)T or ³He(n,γ)T reactions, or can burn long-lived actinides and fission products from nuclear waste through capture and fission processes. In some system scenarios, waste actinides and/or other fissile materials in the blanket can produce sufficient fission energy to power the accelerator.
- Report Numbers
- E 1.99:la-ur-90-3315
E 1.99: conf-901116--2
conf-901116--2
la-ur-90-3315 - Subject(s)
- Other Subject(s)
- Linear Accelerators
- Design
- Neutron Sources
- Radioactive Wastes
- Transmutation
- Tritium
- Production
- Beam Dynamics
- Helium 3 Target
- Lithium 6 Target
- Neutron Reactions
- Proton Beams
- Uses
- Accelerators
- Baryon Reactions
- Beams
- Beta Decay Radioisotopes
- Beta-Minus Decay Radioisotopes
- Hadron Reactions
- Hydrogen Isotopes
- Isotopes
- Light Nuclei
- Materials
- Nuclear Reactions
- Nuclei
- Nucleon Beams
- Nucleon Reactions
- Odd-Even Nuclei
- Particle Beams
- Particle Sources
- Radiation Sources
- Radioactive Materials
- Radioisotopes
- Targets
- Wastes
- Years Living Radioisotopes
- Note
- Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/1990.
"la-ur-90-3315"
" conf-901116--2"
"DE91000187"
11. international conference on the application of accelerators in research and industry, Denton, TX (USA), 5-8 Nov 1990.
Lawrence, G.P. - Funding Information
- W-7405-ENG-36
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