Cold moderator test facilities working group
The working group meeting was chaired by Bauer and Lucas.Testing is a vital part of any cold source development project. This applies to specific physics concept verification, benchmarking in conjunction with computer modeling and engineering testing to confirm the functional viability of a proposed system. Irradiation testing of materials will always be needed to continuously extend a comprehensive and reliable information database. An ever increasing worldwide effort to enhance the performance of reactor and accelerator based neutron sources, coupled with the complexity and rising cost of building new generation facilities, gives a new dimension to cold source development and testing programs. A stronger focus is now being placed on the fine-tuning of cold source design to maximize its effectiveness in fully exploiting the facility. In this context, pulsed spallation neutron sources pose an extra challenge due to requirements regarding pulse width and shape which result from a large variety of different instrument concepts. The working group reviewed these requirements in terms of their consequences on the needs for testing equipment and compiled a list of existing and proposed facilities suitable to carry out the necessary development work.
- Research Organization:
- Paul Scherrer Inst., Villigen (Switzerland)
- OSTI ID:
- 1163132
- Report Number(s):
- IWCMPNS-1997; CONF-9709132-; TRN: US1500274
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International Workshop on Cold Moderators for Pulsed Neutron Sources, Argonne, IL (United States), 29 Sep - 2 Oct 1997; Related Information: In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cold Moderators for Pulsed Neutron Sources, Iverson, E.B and Carpenter, J.M. (eds.), 1997, sponsored by OECD, under the MegaScience Forum
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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