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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
Yoshihiro Nakane, Teruo Abe, Hiroshi Nakashima
Nuclear Technology | Volume 168 | Number 2 | November 2009 | Pages 519-523
Shielding | Special Issue on the 11th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and the 15th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division (Part 2) / Accelerators | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A9236
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Radiation shielding calculations were performed for the shielding design around beam injection and beam extraction areas at the 3-GeV proton synchrotron in the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) with the PHITS Monte Carlo code. Prompt dose rates outside the shields were obtained from calculated neutron energy spectra and flux-to-dose conversion coefficients prepared for the shielding design in J-PARC. The thicknesses of shields were determined from the comparison results of the prompt dose rates with the criteria of dose limit for the design in J-PARC.
