Operational Status and Life Extension Plans for the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE)

Conference · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2011

OSTI ID:1011054

Erickson, John L ^[1]; Rees, Daniel E ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Laboratory

The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) accelerator and beam delivery complex generates the proton beams that serve three neutron production sources, a proton radiography facility and a medical and research isotope production facility. The recent operating history of the facility, including both achievements and challenges, will be reviewed. Plans for performance improvement will be discussed, together with the underlying drivers for the ongoing LANSCE Linac Risk Mitigation (LRM) project. The details of this latter project will also be discussed.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/LANL
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1011054
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-11-10164; TRN: US1102067
• Resource Relation: Conference: PAC '11 ; 2011-03-28 - 2011-04-01 ; New York, New York, United States
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

Accelerator Design, Technology, and Operations
Particle Accelerators (43)
ACCELERATORS
ISOTOPE PRODUCTION
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
MITIGATION
NEUTRONS
PERFORMANCE
PRODUCTION
PROTON BEAMS
PROTON RADIOGRAPHY