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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

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