Los Alamos intense neutron source

Journal Article · Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1997 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society

OSTI ID:552669

Nebel, R A; Pickrell, M M; Barnes, D C ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States); and others

The intense neutron source is an inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion device currently under construction at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is designed to produce 10{sup 11} n/s steady state and will be used for nuclear assay applications. It is being built in a hot cell and will operate with a deuterium-tritium fuel mixture. This device is a three-grid IEC ion focus device. Expected performance has been predicted by scaling from a previous IEC device. In this paper we describe the physics principles of operation of this device, the engineering design parameters, and the empirical scaling used to determine the design parameters.

• OSTI ID: 552669
• Report Number(s): CONF-971125-; ISSN 0003-018X; TRN: 98:001875
• Journal Information: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 77; Conference: 1997 American Nuclear Society (ANS) winter meeting, Albuquerque, NM (United States), 16-20 Nov 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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