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R. A. Lillie, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., J. T. Mihalczo
Nuclear Technology | Volume 43 | Number 3 | May 1979 | Pages 373-381
Technical Paper | Accelerator | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A19225
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A number of Type 316 stainless-steel right circular cylindrical shells of varying lengths have been analyzed using two-dimensional discrete-ordinates transport methods together with first- and last-flight particle estimators to aid in the design of neutron collimators for the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR). In the TFTR, the 14-MeV neutron source has a very large spatial extent, and the collimators must be designed to allow spectral measurements that refer to only a small spatial region of this extended source. The analysis identifies the 14-MeV neutrons from scattering in the Type 316 stainless steel immediately adjacent to the collimator opening as the dominant contributor to detector background. Collimator lengths >0.60 m were found sufficient to attenuate uncollided background neutrons for reasonable source-detector distances. The lower energy (<13.8 MeV) neutron background and gamma background were not found to be significant.