WANG Hongwei, CHEN Jingen, CAI Xiangzhou, et al. Development of photo-neutron facility driven by electron LINAC[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2014, 37(10): 100522
DOI:
WANG Hongwei, CHEN Jingen, CAI Xiangzhou, et al. Development of photo-neutron facility driven by electron LINAC[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2014, 37(10): 100522 DOI: 10.11889/j.0253-3219.2014.hjs.37.100522.
Development of photo-neutron facility driven by electron LINAC
Background: Neutron evaluated data were needed by many researches
e.g.
the safety traffic of nuclear reactor
design of new generated reactor and treatment of nuclear waste. Purpose: The photo-neutron source driven by 15-MeV electrons LINAC in Thorium molten salt reactor (TMSR) program was designed for Th-U cycle nuclear data measurement. Methods: The photo-neutron source combined with time of flight (TOF) spectra is the most accurate method in neutron energy measurement
which plays a very important role in thermal and resonance neutron cross section measurement. Results: It locats in Jiading campus of Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP). In the first phase
a 15-MeV electron LINAC will be manufactured
and then a more high energy about 100-MeV LINAC will be used for the photo-neutron source. Conclusion: The facility (phase 1) will supply the 5-m TOF path and white spectrum neutron with flux ~104 n?s?1?cm?2 and low energy gamma ray ~1 MeV
and it will be used in neutron cross section measurement and gamma irradiation study. This is the first white neutron source facility designed for TMSR nuclear data measurement. Abstract