Nuclear data requirements for accelerator-driven transmutation systems
- Nuclear Theory and Applications Group, MS B-243 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
The possibilities of several new technologies based on use of intense, medium-energy proton accelerators are being investigated at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The potential new areas include destruction of long-lived components of nuclear waste, plutonium burning, energy production, and production of tritium. The design, assessment, and safety analysis of potential facilities involves the understanding of complex combinations of nuclear processes, which in turn places new requirements on nuclear data that transcend the traditional needs of the fission and fusion reactor communities. In this paper an assessment of the nuclear data needs for systems currently being considered in the Los Alamos Accelerator-Driven Transmutation Technologies program is given. The importance of developing neutron and proton cross section libraries in the incident particle energy range of 20 MeV to approximately 200 MeV for transport applications is discussed, and new theoretical methods for developing cross section libraries at higher incident neutron and proton energies are summarized.
- OSTI ID:
- 21156156
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 346, Issue 1; Conference: International conference on accelerator-driven transmutation technologies and applications, Las Vegas, NV (United States), 25-29 Jul 1994; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.49106; (c) 1995 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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