Neutronic design studies for the MIT fission converter beam
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA (United States)
Currently available epithermal neutron beams at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are not sufficiently intense to meet the anticipated demand for boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) treatments if initial, currently in progress clinical trials of BNCT prove successful. Indeed, they are not really adequate for extensive (phase-III) clinical trials. To fulfill this need, a high-intensity, high-quality fission converter-based epithermal neutron beam for BNCT has been designed for the MIT Research Reactor, (MITR-II). This epithermal neutron beam, capable of delivering treatments in a few minutes with negligible beam background contamination, would be installed in the present thermal column and hohlraum of the MITR-II.
- OSTI ID:
- 426302
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961103-; ISSN 0003-018X; TRN: 96:006307-0022
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 75; Conference: Winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and the European Nuclear Society (ENS), Washington, DC (United States), 10-14 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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