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Joint NEA project performs high-burnup test
An article in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s July news bulletin noted that a first test has been completed for the High Burnup Experiments in Reactivity Initiated Accident (HERA) project. The project aim is to understand the performance of light water reactor fuel at high burnup under reactivity-initiated accidents (RIA).
Zhengjun Zhang, Xiuquan Sun, Chonghai Cai, Qingbiao Shen, Yinlu Han
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 143 | Number 1 | January 2003 | Pages 90-98
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE03-A2321
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Reactions of protons induced on 208Pb and 209Bi, the important target materials in accelerator- driven systems, are studied. First, a set of proton optical model potential parameters for heavy elements is obtained up to 500 MeV. Theoretical total reaction cross sections and elastic scattering angular distributions determined by this set of optical model parameters reproduce the experimental data well. Second, several nuclear reaction models (optical model, intranuclear cascade mechanism for nucleon emission, preequilibrium theory based on the exciton model, evaporation model, and the direct reaction theory) are extended for medium energy, and the various reactions of p + 208Pb and 209Bi are calculated in the energy region from threshold up to 250 MeV. In particular, the inclusive cross sections of six emission particles and the production cross sections of all residual nuclei, as well as their energy spectra, are calculated and discussed.