MANTRA: An Integral Reactor Physics Experiment to Infer Actinide Capture Cross-sections from Thorium to Californium with Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
The principle of the proposed experiment is to irradiate very pure actinide samples in the Advanced Test Reactor at INL and, after a given time, determine the amount of the different transmutation products. The determination of the nuclide densities before and after neutron irradiation will allow inference of effective neutron capture cross-sections. This approach has been used in the past and the novelty of this experiment is that the atom densities of the different transmutation products will be determined using the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry technique at the ATLAS facility located at ANL. It is currently planned to irradiate the following isotopes: 232Th, 235U, 236U, 238U, 237Np, 238Pu, 239Pu, 240Pu, 241Pu, 242Pu, 241Am, 243Am, 244Cm and 248Cm.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 1029639
- Report Number(s):
- INL/JOU-11-23978; KPSJAS; TRN: US1105817
- Journal Information:
- Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Vol. 59, Issue 2; ISSN 0374-4884
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ACCELERATORS
ACTINIDES
AMERICIUM 241
AMERICIUM 243
ATOMS
CALIFORNIUM
CAPTURE
CROSS SECTIONS
CURIUM 244
CURIUM 248
IRRADIATION
ISOTOPES
MASS SPECTROSCOPY
NEPTUNIUM 237
NEUTRON REACTIONS
NEUTRONS
PLUTONIUM 238
PLUTONIUM 239
PLUTONIUM 240
PLUTONIUM 241
PLUTONIUM 242
REACTOR PHYSICS
TEST REACTORS
THORIUM
THORIUM 232
TRANSMUTATION
URANIUM 235
URANIUM 236
URANIUM 238
actinide capture cross-sections
AMS
ATR
integral experiment