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Takeshi Kase, Akira Yamadera, Takashi Nakamura, Seiichi Shibata, Ichiro Fujiwara
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 111 | Number 4 | August 1992 | Pages 368-378
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A15484
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
As a basic study of photonuclear transmutation of actinides in high-level radioactive wastes using electron-produced bremsstrahlung, the absolute yields of cumulative mass distributions and the transmutation rates of235U, 238U, 237Np, and 239Pu by photofission reactions induced by 20-, 30-, and 60-MeV bremsstrahlung were measured. The results of mass yield distributions and transmutation yields agree well with other experimental results and those calculated using photofission cross sections, respectively. The transmutation efficiency per electron increases about one order of magnitude with electron energy from 20 to 60 MeV.
