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Preprint
Report number	JINR-P2-2000-137 ; P2-2000-137
Title	Monte Carlo Modeling Electronuclear Processes in Cascade Subcritical Reactor
Author(s)	Bznuni, S A ; Barashenkov, V S ; Zhamkochyan, V M ; Polyanskii, A A ; Sosnin, A N ; Khudaverdian, A G
Affiliation	(Laboratory of Computing Techniques and Automation, JINR, Dubna) ; (Yerevan State University (YSU), Armennia) ; (The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies (SINS), Warsaw, Poland)
Publication	2000
Imprint	7 Jun 2000
Number of pages	12
Published in:	At. Energ. (USSR)
Subject category	General Theoretical Physics
Abstract	Accelerator driven subcritical cascade reactor composed of the main thermal neutron reactor constructed analogous to the core of the VVER-1000 reactor and a booster-reactor, which is constructed similar to the core of the BN-350 fast breeder reactor, is taken as a model example. It is shown by means of Monte Carlo calculations that such system is a safe energy source (k_{eff}=0.94-0.98) and it is capable of transmuting produced radioactive wastes (neutron flux density in the thermal zone is PHI^{max} (r,z)=10^{14} n/(cm^{-2} s^{-1}), neutron flux in the fast zone is respectively equal PHI^{max} (r,z)=2.25 cdot 10^{15} n/(cm^{-2} s^{-1}) if the beam current of the proton accelerator is k_{eff}=0.98 and I=5.3 mA). Suggested configuration of the "cascade" reactor system essentially reduces the requirements on the proton accelerator current.
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