Gamma-Ray Effects Testing in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Nova Upgrade Facility

Gamma-Ray Effects Testing in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Nova Upgrade Facility
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Total Pages: 94
Release: 1992
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Gamma ray effects testing in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) planned Nova Upgrade facility is examined. Emphasis is placed on converting neutron energy from inertial confinement fusion in to gamma rays while shielding the test objects from neutrons and debris. Although predicted gamma doses in the Nova Upgrade facility are an order of magnitude less than those produced in some current facilities, dose uniformity, the ratio of minimum to maximum gamma dose is predicted to be greater than 0.75 across a larger, 13, 000 sq cm, test bed. Peak gamma dose rates are predicted to be on the order of 10 to the 10th power Gy/s, similar to the dose rates of current simulators. Surprisingly, the laser ports reduce the gamma dose about 30% and the peak gamma dose rate about 40%, but they increase the average gamma energy about 20 %. The dose and dose rates from the Nova nuclear weapons effects test (NWET) cassette should scale linearly with the yield from future ICF facilities, such as the Laboratory Microfusion Facility (LMF) planned by the Department of Energy.

Energy Research Abstracts

Energy Research Abstracts
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Total Pages: 724
Release: 1993
Genre: Power resources
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Semiannual, with semiannual and annual indexes. References to all scientific and technical literature coming from DOE, its laboratories, energy centers, and contractors. Includes all works deriving from DOE, other related government-sponsored information, and foreign nonnuclear information. Arranged under 39 categories, e.g., Biomedical sciences, basic studies; Biomedical sciences, applied studies; Health and safety; and Fusion energy. Entry gives bibliographical information and abstract. Corporate, author, subject, report number indexes.

Capture Gamma-ray Spectroscopy And Related Topics, Proceedings Of The Eleventh International Symposium (Cgs-11)

Capture Gamma-ray Spectroscopy And Related Topics, Proceedings Of The Eleventh International Symposium (Cgs-11)
Author: Jan Kvasil
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 895
Release: 2003-06-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814485837

This volume is a collection of invited talks, oral contributions and poster contributions devoted to advances in gamma-ray spectroscopy of various capture reactions. In agreement with the trend of previous meetings in the series, the symposium paid special attention to theoretical and experimental studies of nuclear structure at low energies and to nuclear astrophysics. Among the other topics covered are: statistical properties of nuclei and other quantum many-body systems, fundamental physics, nuclear data, practical application of capture reactions, and new techniques and facilities for capture gamma-ray spectroscopy.