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Neutron Multiplicity Measurements Of Target/Blanket Materials, Denis Beller
Neutron Multiplicity Measurements Of Target/Blanket Materials, Denis Beller
Transmutation Sciences Physics (TRP)
To optimize the performance of accelerator-driven transmutation subcritical systems (ADS), engineers will need to design the system to operate with a neutron multiplication factor just below that of a critical, or self-sustaining, system. This design criterion requires particle transport codes that instill the highest level of confidence with minimal uncertainty, because larger uncertainties in the codes require larger safety margins in the design and result in a lower efficiency of the ADS transmuter. For current design efforts in the U.S., a Monte Carlo particle transport code MCNPX is used to model neutron production and transport for spallation neutron systems.
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