JAEA-Conf 2011-002 - 日本原子力研究開発機構
JAEA-Conf 2011-002 - 日本原子力研究開発機構
JAEA-Conf 2011-002 - 日本原子力研究開発機構
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<strong>JAEA</strong>-<strong>Conf</strong> <strong>2011</strong>-<strong>002</strong><br />
36. Evaluation of gamma-ray and neutron energy<br />
in the IFMIF/EVEDA accelerator building<br />
Hiroki TAKAHASHI 1* , Sunao MAEBARA 2 , Hironao SAKAKI 3 , Keiichi HIRABAYASHI 4 ,<br />
Kosuke HIDAKA 4 , Nobuhiro SHIGYO 4 , Yukinobu WATANABE 5 , Kenshi SAGARA 6<br />
1. Directorates of Fusion Energy Research, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (<strong>JAEA</strong>),<br />
Rokkasho-mura, Aomori 039-3212, Japan<br />
2. Directorates of Fusion Energy Research, <strong>JAEA</strong>, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan<br />
3. Photo Medical Research Center, <strong>JAEA</strong>, Kizugawa Kyoto 619-0215, Japan<br />
4. Department of Applied Quantum Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Kyushu University,<br />
Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan<br />
5. Department of Advanced Energy Engineering Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan<br />
6. Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan<br />
*E-mail: takahashi.hiroki@jaea.go.jp<br />
The Engineering Validation of the IFMIF/EVEDA accelerator prototype, up to 9MeV by employing<br />
the deuteron beam of 125mA, is planning at the BA site in Rokkasho. The design of this area monitoring<br />
system, comprising of Si semiconductors and ionization chambers for covering wide energy spectrum of<br />
gamma-rays and 3 He counters for neutrons, is now in progress. To establish the applicability, photon and<br />
neutron energy has to be suppressed to the detector ranges of 1.5MeV and 15MeV, respectively. For this<br />
purpose, the reduction of neutron and photon energies throughout shield of water and concrete layer is<br />
evaluated by PHITS code, using the experimental data of neutron source spectra. As the first step, simple<br />
sphere model is used and it is found that the photon energy range exceeded over 10MeV by water and<br />
concrete shielding material only.<br />
In this article, in order to decrease the maximum photon energy, a model with iron layer is evaluated.<br />
1. Introduction<br />
International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) [1-3] is an accelerator-based neutron<br />
irradiation facility to develop materials for a demonstration fusion reactor next to ITER. For preparing the<br />
necessary information to make a decision of the IFMIF construction, Engineering Validation and<br />
Engineering Design Activities (EVEDA) have been started.<br />
IFMIF/EVEDA prototype accelerator consists of an injector (output energy;100keV), a 175MHz RFQ<br />
linac (0.1-5.0MeV), a medium energy beam transport, the first section of Superconducting RF linac