Proposed upgrade of the lower tier water moderators for the LANSE 1L MARK-III upgrade.
- Guenter
- Eric J.
- Gary J.
We will show in this article the proposed upgrade for the lower tier water moderators for the LANSCE 1L Mark-III design. This proposal will include the introduction of pre-moderators for the high intensity moderators and a change of the decoupler from Cadmium to Gadolinium on all lower tier water moderators. We will present the influence of these changes on the integrated thermal flux and the time distribution of these moderators. As part of the upgrade of the Manual Lujan Jr. Neutron Scattering Center target (1L target) the goal was to increase the integrated thermal flux of the lower high intensity and the high resolution moderator by 20%. We will show in this paper that this goal can be achieved by introducing a pre-moderator concept on the high resolution moderators and by changing the decoupling scheme on all three moderators. Furthermore we will show that this goal can be achieved without jeopardizing the time of flight resolution of these moderators. For the all these calculations we used the radiation transport code MCNPX, which is most commonly used for this type of calculations.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 977965
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-05-3165; TRN: US1003771
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ICANS-XVII 17th Meeting of the International Collaboration on Advanced Neutron Sources, April 25-29, 2005, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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