LBM program at the LOTUS facility
The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's (EPFL's) LOTUS facility in Lausanne, Switzerland, consists of a point-neutron deuterium-tritium (D-T) source in a shielded room designed specifically for neutronics experiments with fusion blanket modules. In 1985 the Electric Power Research Institute and EPFL initiated an experimental neutron transport program using irradiation of the Lithium Blanket Module (LBM) by the LOTUS neutron source. The principal objectives of this program are: (a) to test the capability of present-day neutron transport codes to predict the neutronic performance, including tritium breeding, of a reactor-representative blanket module in a relatively simple fast-neutron field and (b) to develop and verify the measurement and data processing procedures that will be used eventually with the LBM experiments at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL).
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab., NJ
- OSTI ID:
- 5503670
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-860610-; TRN: 88-008096
- Journal Information:
- Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States), Vol. 52; Conference: American Nuclear Society annual meeting, Reno, NV, USA, 15 Jun 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Related Subjects
BREEDING BLANKETS
BREEDING RATIO
DESIGN
TFTR TOKAMAK
COMPUTER CODES
NEUTRON SOURCE FACILITIES
NEUTRON TRANSPORT
RADIOACTIVATION
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
TRITIUM
VALIDATION
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
CONVERSION RATIO
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
NEUTRAL-PARTICLE TRANSPORT
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
RADIATION TRANSPORT
RADIOISOTOPES
REACTOR COMPONENTS
TESTING
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
TOKAMAK TYPE REACTORS
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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