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Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
Denis E. Beller, Len J. Lorence, Michael T. Tobin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 770-774
Inertial Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29438
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Major applications of the Laboratory Microfusion Facility (LMF) will include nuclear effects simulation testing and commercial development of inertial fusion. Recent studies of the use of the LMF for x-ray effects experiments have demonstrated that this testing is possible at high-dose and dose rate with good fidelity because neutron effects can be minimized. To insure a basis for comparison between design studies at Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque (SNLA), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), we developed a computational benchmark. The benchmark geometry includes a spherical photon scatterer and a conical neutron shield, both of LiH enriched to 96.5% 6Li. The benchmark x-ray source is a 15-keV Plankian spectrum, and the neutron source is mono-energetic 14.1-MeV neutrons. We compared results with the following computer codes and cross section libraries: MORSE and DABL69 at AFIT, TART and ENDL at LLNL, and MCNP and ENDL at SNLA. We present a comparison of the predicted x-ray, neutron, and n-gamma doses at a 3-m distant, 2-m diameter exposure plane. We compare total doses and peak dose rates; and we discuss differences in results.