Izvestiya vuzov. Yadernaya Energetika

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Calculation of isotopic composition and induced activity of irradiated materials in innovative accelerator-driven systems

7/14/2014 2014 - #02 Nuclear materials

Korovin Yu.A. Maksimushkina A.V.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26583/npe.2014.2.06

UDC: 51.7:539.17

The paper describes the SNT.1 system for calculating the isotopic composition and induced activity of irradiated materials in innovative accelerator-driven systems (ADS). The SNT.1 algorithm, the list and format of the input data, the list of evaluated nuclear data libraries to be used in the calculations as well as various calculation options are given. The calculations performed by SNT.1 are presented. For the TRADE project, the activity calculation of the water cooling the Ta target is presented, the calculation results were compared with those obtained by other software codes. The results of activity calculations by different codes show good agreement. The concentration and activity of nuclides formedduring irradiation of the lead-bismuth target are performed with due account of the variationsin the accelerator current during irradiation. The possibility of using neural networks for approximation and recovery of data, such as the reaction cross-sections, is considered. RBF and GRNN neural network structures were selected to approximate data on the 209Bi (n, 3n) 207Bi and 54Fe (n, p) 54Mn reaction cross sections. Neural networks were used to restore the data on the total cross-section of the neutron-209Bi interaction reactions. The approximation quality was assessed using agreement factors. It was shown that it is possible to obtain the necessary data and produce further calculations without using complex software systems.

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transmutation activity calculation irradiated materials nuclear data reaction cross-sections neural networks

Link for citing the article: Korovin Yu.A., Maksimushkina A.V. Calculation of isotopic composition and induced activity of irradiated materials in innovative accelerator-driven systems. Izvestiya vuzov. Yadernaya Energetika. 2014, no. 2, pp. 51-60; DOI: https://doi.org/10.26583/npe.2014.2.06 (in Russian).

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