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Securing the advanced reactor fleet
Physical protection accounts for a significant portion of a nuclear power plant’s operational costs. As the U.S. moves toward smaller and safer advanced reactors, similar protection strategies could prove cost prohibitive. For tomorrow’s small modular reactors and microreactors, security costs must remain appropriate to the size of the reactor for economical operation.
K.V. Lotov, A.A. Ivanov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 353-357
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963883
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The fast ions produced inside a mirror trap by neutral beam injection could form periodic short-lived density peaks near a turning point if the injection energy is properly modulated in time. Achievable parameters of thus formed fast ion bunches are analyzed in this paper. The theory is illustrated by estimates for the neutron source based on a gas-dynamic trap. The bunching of deuterium and tritium ions can produce periodic short bursts of neutron radiation with the intensity 1.5 times higher than the average level. The modulation of the neutron flux could extend the field of application for the neutron source. Also, the bunching could serve as a precise plasma diagnostics in mirror traps.