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At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
Jan S. Brzosko, H. Conrads, Jean Pierre Rager, B. V. Robouch, Karl Steinmetz
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 5 | Number 2 | March 1984 | Pages 209-223
Technical Paper | Experimental Devices | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23094
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A study of the high-energy part of the deuteron spectrum produced by the Frascati 1-MJ plasma focus device is carried out through measurements of (a) the energy distribution of prompt neutrons emitted by D(d, n) and 7Li(d, n) reactions using three time-of-flight spectrometers and (b) the total neutron fluence and the high-energy neutron fluence using silver- and lead-activation counters, respectively. The results clearly confirm the existence of an energetic deuteron beam, Eb = ≤2 to 4≥ MeV, and lower energy streams circulating in the plasma, Es ≅ 100 keV, responsible for the main part of the neutron production through the D(d, n) process, with the ratio of the two components, . The methodology of measurements and of data analysis described represents a definite improvement with respect to those described in previous publications.
