Research Article

Calculation of the Neutron Parameters for Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactors

Table 4

Maximum and minimum neutron flux calculated for some configurations, coolant and target.

kCase 1Case 2Case 3
Neutron flux (n·cm−2s−1) UZrH, molten lead (this work)Neutron flux (n·cm−2s−1) UZrH, light water, solid lead (this work)Neutron flux (n·cm−2s−1) UZrH, light water, tungsten (Hassanzadeh et al. [8])
Maximum valuesMinimum valuesMaximum valuesMinimum valuesMaximum valuesMinimum values

0.918.5 × 10133.5 × 10133.0 × 10131.2 × 10131.3 × 10130.3 × 1012
0.973.4 × 10131.6 × 10131.8 × 10130.8 × 10130.6 × 10130.2 × 1012
0.991.9 × 10131.0 × 1013