FISSION PARAMETERS MEASUREMENTS FOR NP, PU, AM, AND CM ISOTOPES INSIDE A SALT BLANKET MICROMODEL
- Yury E.
- Vyacheslav F.
- Evgeny I.
- Valery M.
- Aleksander B.
- Ruslan D.
- Dmitry V.
- Svetlana V.
- Stepan G.
Pursuing verification of the nuclear data for actinides, we have made a run of experiments to determine reaction rates in facilities with different neutron spectra. The researches of the kind are particularly argent when going over from the transmutation physics studies to designing the transmutation reactors and developing their fuel cycle equipment. In this case, the nuclear data on the minor actinides (Np, Am, Cm) are notably interesting with the view to correct prediction of transmutation rates and t,o validation of hazardous nuclear and radiation environment for the external (off-reactor) fuel cycle. It is in the case of just those nuclides when the well-known ENDF/B6 and JENDL3.2 libraries give the most discrepant nuclear cross sections, thus necessitating the high- priority experimental tests.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 975706
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-01-4787; TRN: US1006761
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: "Submitted to: AccApp'01&ADTTA'01, Nuclear Applications in the New Millennium, Reno, Nevada November 11-15, 2001."
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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