TY - JOUR
T1 - Neutronics analysis for FMITS at SNS
AU - Lu, Wei
AU - McManamy, Thomas J.
AU - Ferguson, Phillip D.
AU - Gallmeier, Franz X.
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - The fusion material community has a growing interest in irradiating materials under a spallation spectrum, in which the wide range of helium/dpa ratios provides a unique opportunity for verifying and adjusting simulation model studies of the radiation effects on structural fusion materials. One of such efforts is the recently proposed FMITS project to be carried out at SNS. The conceptual design of FMITS was completed and briefly presented here. In this design, two sample rods are placed 3 cm and 5 cm off the centreline, respectively, in front of the mercury target, where the back scattering neutron flux spectrum was found to be fairly close to the ITER fusion spectrum. The PKA spectra at the FMITS samples were also compared to those at ITER. The results show a good agreement between the two types of PKA spectra. At a nominal power of 1.4 MW, the displacement production at samples of FMITS is 1.6-5.5 dpa/yr for steel, and 1.8-3.4 dpa/yr for SiC. The ratio of the gas production versus the displacement production is 13-75 appmHe/dpa and 76-311 appmH/dpa for steel, and 30-98 appmHe/dpa and 28-145 appmH/dpa for SiC. This study found no negative impact of FMITS on the SNS moderator performance based on the current conceptual design.
AB - The fusion material community has a growing interest in irradiating materials under a spallation spectrum, in which the wide range of helium/dpa ratios provides a unique opportunity for verifying and adjusting simulation model studies of the radiation effects on structural fusion materials. One of such efforts is the recently proposed FMITS project to be carried out at SNS. The conceptual design of FMITS was completed and briefly presented here. In this design, two sample rods are placed 3 cm and 5 cm off the centreline, respectively, in front of the mercury target, where the back scattering neutron flux spectrum was found to be fairly close to the ITER fusion spectrum. The PKA spectra at the FMITS samples were also compared to those at ITER. The results show a good agreement between the two types of PKA spectra. At a nominal power of 1.4 MW, the displacement production at samples of FMITS is 1.6-5.5 dpa/yr for steel, and 1.8-3.4 dpa/yr for SiC. The ratio of the gas production versus the displacement production is 13-75 appmHe/dpa and 76-311 appmH/dpa for steel, and 30-98 appmHe/dpa and 28-145 appmH/dpa for SiC. This study found no negative impact of FMITS on the SNS moderator performance based on the current conceptual design.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.03.010
DO - 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.03.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84901234605
SN - 0022-3115
VL - 450
SP - 20
EP - 26
JO - Journal of Nuclear Materials
JF - Journal of Nuclear Materials
IS - 1-3
ER -
