State-of-the-art research : reflections on a concerted Nordic-Baltic nuclear energy effort

Quite a few hold the view that nuclear energy will have its renaissance in the not too distant future. Technology is, however, a necessary, but not sufficient condition. The needed prerequisites represent a complex issue. With increasing energy demand and depletion of non-renewable energy resources, nuclear will have to prove its role in an increasing energy mix, globally, regionally and often also nationally. Based on its history, experience with coordinated interplay in electricity production from a variety of energy sources, and science engagements, we argue for a future Nordic/Baltic SHOW CASE: A nuclear weapons free and proliferation safe nuclear energy supplier in the region, with a concerted role in competence building and in international ventures, and with focus on operation, safety economy and societal aspects

Delayed neutrons measurement at the MEGAPIE target

In the framework of the Neutronic and Nuclear Assessment Task Group of the MEGAPIE experiment we measured the delayed neutron (DN) flux at the top of the target. The measurement was proposed mainly for radioprotection purposes since the DN flux at the top of the target has been estimated to be of the same order of magnitude as the prompt neutron flux. Given the strong model-dependence of DN predictions, the measurement of DN contribution to the total neutron activity at the top of the target was thus desired. Moreover, this measurement is complementary to the DN experiments performed at PNPI (Gatchina) on solid lead and bismuth targets. The DN measurement at MEGAPIE was performed during the start-up phase of the target. In this paper we present a detailed description of the experimental setup and some preliminary results on decay spectra.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND 2007), Nice, France, 22-27 Apr 200

Optimization of in-target yields for RIB production - Part I: Direct yields

In-target yields for different configurations of thick direct targets

Measurements of Delayed Neutrons Yields and Time Spectra from 1 GeV protons interacting with thick natPb targets

Conference Proceedings of PHYSOR2006, Vancouver, Canada, 10-14 Sept. 2006; ISBN-0-89448-697-7 (2006) B104