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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Juraj Pivarč Stanislav Hlaváč
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 106 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 266-278
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A29055
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A multipurpose 14-MeV neutron source based on the T(d,n)4 He reaction is under construction in Bratislava. Its basic purpose is to produce intense and pulsed beams of 14-Me V neutrons. The intense section of the source is expected to continuously produce 1.2 × 1012 n/s with a 20-mA duoplasmatron ion source, 300-kV/40-mA high-voltage power supply, and a rotating titanium-tritium target for 1100 rpm. Although it is designed for a variety of experiments in low-energy nuclear physics involving in-beam gamma-ray, neutron, and charged-particle spectroscopy, neutron activation measurements as well as neutron irradiation studies are also planned. So far, we have completed the main section of the accelerator itself and part of a low-intensity direct current beamline with a neutron yield to 4 × 1010 n/s. A continuation of this line, with a fast pulsed section capable of generating a compressed 1-ns-wide D+ ion beam at a repetition rate of 5 MHz is under construction. The source components, which are designed to be highly reliable and provide minimum radiation hazard from tritium handling, are discussed together with final source specifications.