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Nuclear News 40 Under 40 discuss the future of nuclear
Seven members of the inaugural Nuclear News 40 Under 40 came together on March 4 to discuss the current state of nuclear energy and what the future might hold for science, industry, and the public in terms of nuclear development.
To hear more insights from this talented group of young professionals, watch the “40 Under 40 Roundtable: Perspectives from Nuclear’s Rising Stars” on the ANS website.
Cheol Ho Pyeon, Hiroyuki Nakano, Masao Yamanaka, Takahiro Yagi, Tsuyoshi Misawa
Nuclear Technology | Volume 192 | Number 2 | November 2015 | Pages 181-190
Technical Paper | Accelerators | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-111
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
At the Kyoto University Critical Assembly, a series of reactor physics experiments on the accelerator-driven system (ADS) coupled with the fixed-field alternating gradient (FFAG) accelerator are carried out, and the spallation neutrons generated by 100-MeV protons from the FFAG accelerator are successfully injected into the cores. In the ADS experiments, the neutron characteristics of the solid target are investigated through static and kinetic analyses, when the external neutron source of the neutron spectrum (the W, W-Be, or Pb-Bi target) is varied. The results demonstrate that the neutron yield is large with the W target, but a discrepancy is observed between the experiments and the calculations, because the experimental uncertainty of proton monitoring is attributable to defocusing of proton beams. With the use of reaction rate distribution in the core region, the static parameters are estimated fairly well in the analyses of the neutron multiplication and subcritical multiplication factor. In the kinetic experiments, the variation of the solid target used is clearly evident in the prompt neutron decay constant and the subcriticality.