Calculates Neutron Production in Canisters of High-level Waste

Software · Fri Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20180620.2· OSTI ID:1230208 · Code ID:12271

Salmon, Royes; Hermann, O.

ALPHN calculates the (alpha,n) neutron production rate of a canister of vitrified high-level waste. The user supplies the chemical composition of the glass or glass-ceramic and the curies of the alpha-emitting actinides present. The output of the program gives the (alpha,n) neutron production of each actinide in neutrons per second and the total for the canister. The (alpha,n) neutron production rates are source terms only; that is, they are production rates within the glass and do not take into account the shielding effect of the glass. For a given glass composition, the user can calculate up to eight cases simultaneously; these cases are based on the same glass composition but contain different quantities of actinides per canister.

• Short Name / Acronym: ALPHN
• Project Type: Closed Source
• Site Accession Number: 1935
• Software Type: Scientific
• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/RW

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  Primary Award/Contract Number:

  AC05-84OR21400
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• Code ID: 12271
• OSTI ID: 1230208
• Country of Origin: United States