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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Hiroshi Nakashima, Shun-Ichi Tanaka, Tomoo Suzuki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 16 | Number 3 | November 1989 | Pages 365-376
Technical Paper | Shielding | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A29127
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An experiment was carried out to study the behavior of 14-MeV neutrons incident to a large cavity composed of mortar coated with stainless steel, which simulates a neutral beam injector (NBI) in a tokamak fusion reactor. Fast neutron spectra and reaction rate distributions were measured inside the cavity with a 5.06-cm-high × 5.06-cm-diam NE-213 spectrometer as well as 232Th and 235U fission counters. The experimental results were analyzed with a Monte Carlo MCNP-3 code, using nuclear data files from the JENDL series and from ENDF/B-IV. Calculations with two discrete ordinates codes, DOT3.5 and BERMUDA-2DN, using ENDF/B-IV and JENDL nuclear data files, were also compared with the measurements to study their applicability for NBI design. For fast neutrons, the MCNP calculations are in good agreement with the measurements. Moreover, comparison between the DOT3.5 and BERMUDA-2DN calculations showed the significant effect of the Legendre expansion of neutron scattering in the high-energy region. For low-energy neutrons, the DOT3.5 code calculations agreed with the measurements, while the MCNP code could not successfully reproduce the measurements. The experiments also suggested that the ratios of thermal and epithermal neutrons were constant for the 14-MeV neutrons coming into the cavity.
