Hostname: page-component-669899f699-2mbcq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-04-29T21:00:06.093Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Radiological Properties of Heavy Liquid Metal Targets of Accelerator Driven Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

D. V. Pankratov ,
E. I. Yefimov ,
S. V. Ignatiev  and
V. I. Levano
D. V. Pankratov
Affiliation:
Department of Special Nuclear Power Units Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk 249020, Russia
E. I. Yefimov
Affiliation:
Department of Special Nuclear Power Units Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk 249020, Russia
S. V. Ignatiev
Affiliation:
Department of Special Nuclear Power Units Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk 249020, Russia
V. I. Levano
Affiliation:
Department of Special Nuclear Power Units Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk 249020, Russia
Get access

Abstract

The long-lived radioactivity of lead-bismuth coolant (LBC) inside the targets of the accelerator driven systems (ADS) is estimated. It is determined by both spallation and fission products of lead and bismuth nuclides. Based on US safety standards the radiotoxicity of targets was calculated for different cooling down periods. In order to estimate the total radioactivity of 1-MW power target circuit (TC), which is developing now at IPPE, the contribution of its main components are preliminarily analyzed.

Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 556: Symposium QQ – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXII , 1999 , 1215
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

REFERENCES

1. Gromov, B.F., Yefimov, E.I., Leonchuk, M.P. et al., Flow Lead-Bismuth Target for High Energy Protons as Intense Neutron Source in Accelerator- Driven Systems, Atomnaya Energiya, Vol.80, p. 400–407 (1996) (in Russian).Google Scholar
2. Gromov, B.F., Yefimov, E.I., Leonchuk, M.P. et al., Liquid Lead-Bismuth Tareet as Intense Neutron Source in Accelerator- Driven Systems for Actinides Transmutation and Plutonium Utilization, Proc. of International Conference on Future Nuclear Systems CLOBAL'97, Yokohama, Japan, 1997, Vol.2, p. 1285–1290.Google Scholar
3. Gromov, B.F., Yefimov, E.I., Pankratov, D.V. et al., Design Study for a System for the Removal and Containment of Polonium from Liquid Lead-Bismuth Eutectic. Final report on Agreement 2266V0015-35 between IPPE and LANL (USA). Obninsk, 1996.Google Scholar
4. Shubin, Yu. N. Calculation of Activity and Residual Energy Release in Liquid Lead-Bismuth Target of 1 MW Power. Obninsk, 1998.(in Russian)Google Scholar
5. Standards for Protection Against Radiation; Final Rule. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 1991.Google Scholar
6. Gromov, B.F., Belomitecev, Yu.S., Yefimov, E.I. et al., Use of Lead-Bismuth Coolant in Nuclear Reactors and Accelerator-Driven Systems, Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol.173, p. 207–217 (1997).Google Scholar
7. Pankratov, D.V., Yefimov, E.I., Levanov, V.I. et al., Calculation of Gas System Activity of the Target Circuit of I MW Power. Obninsk, 1998.(in Russian).Google Scholar
8. Pankratov, D.V., Yefimov, E.I., Levanov, V.I. et al., Calculation of Gaseous and Volatile Spallation Product Activity of the Target Circuit of 1 MW Power. Obninsk, 1998. (in Russian).Google Scholar
9. Pankratov, D.V., Yefimov, E.I., Levanov, V.I. et al., Calculation of Activity of the Air in the Volume of Container of Target Circuit of 1 MW Power. Obninsk, 1998.(in Russian).Google Scholar