Document Type

Grant

Publication Date

7-21-2004

First page number:

1

Last page number:

14

Abstract

In the RACE Project of the U.S. Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative (AFCI), a series of accelerator driven subcritical systems (ADSS) experiments will be conducted at the Idaho State University’s Idaho Accelerator Center (ISU-IAC), at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, and at the Texas A&M University. In these experiments we will use electron accelerators to induce bremsstrahlung photon-neutron reactions in heavy-metal targets; this source of about 1012 to 1013 n/s will then initiate fission reactions in the subcritical systems. These systems will include a compact, transportable assembly at ISU and TRIGA reactors at UT-Austin and Texas A&M. These experiments will provide a variety of cores, fuel types and enrichments, and target/reactor configurations for many separate accelerator coupling studies. The UNLV portion of this project will be a three-year, three-phase project employing a principal investigator (as well as the UNLV TRP RACE Project Director), a graduate student, and an undergraduate student to support computational and experimental research at the ISU and the Texas universities, to integrate the UNLV Transmutation Research Project with this accelerator-driven transmutation research, and to further develop UNLV’s computational infrastructure for reactor physics research.

Keywords

Accelerator-driven systems; Bremsstrahlung; Nuclear reactions; Neutrons; Photons; Transmutation (Chemistry)

Controlled Subject

Accelerator-driven systems; Bremsstrahlung; Nuclear reactions

Disciplines

Nuclear | Nuclear Engineering

File Format

pdf

File Size

234 KB

Language

English

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