Assessment of lead-bismuth eutectic target material for accelerator driven transmuters.

Conference · Wed May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2002

OSTI ID:795057

Gohar, Y

Lead-Bismuth Eutectic is under consideration as a target material with high-energy protons for generating spallation neutrons to operate actinide and fission product transmuters. An assessment has been performed to study the performance of this target material as a function of the main variables and the design selections. The assessment includes the neutron yield, the spatial energy deposition, the neutron spectrum, the beam window performance, and the target buffer requirements. Heat transfer, hydraulics, beam window material and stresses, and target engineering issues have been considered. The assessment has also considered high-energy deuteron particles to study the impact on the target performance.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31-109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 795057
• Report Number(s): ANL/TD/CP-107685; TRN: US0201178
• Resource Relation: Conference: 5th International Workshop on Spallation Materials Technology, Charleston, SC (US), 05/19/2002--05/24/2002; Other Information: PBD: 22 May 2002
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATORS
ACTINIDES
BUFFERS
DEUTERONS
EUTECTICS
FISSION PRODUCTS
HEAT TRANSFER
HYDRAULICS
NEUTRONS
PROTONS
SPALLATION
STRESSES
TARGETS
WINDOWS