Probability of inelastic nuclear interactions in a short bent silicon crystal for its orientations optimal for channeling and volume reflection was investigated using 400 GeV/c protons of the CERN SPS. The contribution of nuclear interactions from channeled protons was observed to be about 3–4% of the probability for the amorphous orientation. For the crystal orientation optimal for volume reflection the nuclear interaction probability of protons was a few percents larger than in the amorphous case. It was shown that in the limiting case of a quasi parallel beam realizing for the collider beam halo the inelastic nuclear losses should decrease by more than five times, which is an additional advantage of a crystal as a primary collimator for the LHC collimation system
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