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Radiation transport calculations for the ANS beam tubes

Conference · · Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States)
OSTI ID:5711637
The advanced neutron source facility (ANS) will incorporate a large number of both radial and no-line-of-sight (NLS) beam tubes to provide very large thermal neutron fluxes to experimental facilities. The purpose of this work was to obtain comparisons for the ANS single- and split-core designs of the thermal and damage neutron and gamma-ray scalar fluxes in these beam tubes. For experimental locations for from the reactor cores, angular flux data are required; however, for close-in experimental locations, the scalar fluxes within each beam tube provide a credible estimate of the various signal-to-noise (S/N) ratios. In this paper, the coupled two- and three-dimensional radiation transport calculations employed to estimate the scalar neutron and gamma-ray fluxes are described and the results from these calculations are discussed.
Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
OSTI ID:
5711637
Report Number(s):
CONF-871101-
Conference Information:
Journal Name: Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States) Journal Volume: 55
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English