Nuclear data needs for accelerator-driven transmutation systems
The possibilities of several new technologies based on use of intense, medium-energy proton accelerators are being investigated at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The potential new areas include destruction of long-lived components of nuclear waste, plutonium burning, energy production, and production of tritium. The design, assessment, and safety analysis of potential facilities involves the understanding of complex combinations of nuclear processes, which in turn places new requirements on nuclear data that transcend the traditional needs of the fission and fusion reactor communities. In this paper an assessment of the nuclear data needs for systems currently being considered in the Los Alamos Accelerator-Driven Transmutation Technologies program is given.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 10162706
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-94-1908; CONF-9405137-6; ON: DE94014457; TRN: 94:013644
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: NEA/OECD/NSC specialists meeting on intermediate energy nuclear data (IEND) codes,Paris (France),30 May - 1 Jun 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1994]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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