Published 1991
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Report
High-power proton linac for transmuting the long-lived products in nuclear waste
Description
A high power proton linac is being considered at Los Alamos as a driver for a high-flux spallation neutron source capable of transmuting the troublesome long-lived fission products in defense nuclear waste. The transmutation scheme under study provides a high flux (> 1016/cm2-s) of thermal neutrons which efficiently converts fission products to stable or short-lived isotopes. A transmuter based on a medium-energy proton linac generating 110 MW of beam power could burn the accumulated 99Tc and 129I inventory at the DOE's Hanford site within 30 years. Preliminary concepts for the accelerator are discussed
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Conference record of the 1991 IEEE particle accelerator conference: Accelerator science and technology. Volume 4 of 5
- Imprint Pagination
- 715 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 2598-2600.
- Report number
- DOE/ER/40607--1-Vol.4
Conference
- Title
- 1991 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) particle accelerator conference (PAC).
- Dates
- 6-11 May 1991.
- Place
- San Francisco, CA (United States).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 24011067
- Subject category
- S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; S07: ISOTOPES AND RADIATION SOURCES; S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- COST; DESIGN; DIAGRAMS; FISSION PRODUCTS; HALF-LIFE; HANFORD RESERVATION; IODINE 129; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; NEUTRON SOURCES; PERFORMANCE; PROTON BEAMS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SPALLATION; TECHNETIUM ISOTOPES; TRANSMUTATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BEAMS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; INFORMATION; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTO; IODINE ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEI; NUCLEON BEAMS; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; PARTICLE BEAMS; PARTICLE SOURCES; RADIATION SOURCES; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOISOTOPES; US DOE; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; WASTES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-910505--Vol.4.