In this work, we report studies on a fast low power accelerator driven system model as a possible experimental facility, focusing on its capabilities in terms of measurement of relevant integral nuclear quantities. | A low power ADS for transmutation studies in fast systems EPJ Nuclear Sci. Technol. 3 36 2017 Nuclear Sciences F. Panza et al. published by EDP Sciences 2017 amp Technologies DOI epjn 2017030 Available online at https REGULAR ARTICLE A low power ADS for transmutation studies in fast systems Fabio Panza1 2 Gabriele Firpo3 Guglielmo Lomonaco1 4 Mikhail Osipenko1 Giovanni Ricco1 2 Marco Ripani1 2 Paolo Saracco1 and Carlo Maria Viberti3 1 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Genova Via Dodecaneso33 16146 Genova Italy 2 Centro Fermi Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi Piazza del Viminale 1 00184 Roma Italy 3 Ansaldo Nucleare Corso . Perrone 25 16152 Genova Italy 4 GeNERG DIME TEC University of Genova Via. All Opera Pia 15 A 16145 Genova Italy Received 17 February 2017 Received in final form 19 June 2017 Accepted 10 November 2017 Abstract. In this work we report studies on a fast low power accelerator driven system model as a possible experimental facility focusing on its capabilities in terms of measurement of relevant integral nuclear quantities. In particular we performed Monte Carlo simulations of minor actinides and fission products irradiation and estimated the fission rate within fission chambers in the reactor core and the reflector in order to evaluate the transmutation rates and the measurement sensitivity. We also performed a photo-peak analysis of available experimental data from a research reactor in order to estimate the expected sensitivity of this analysis method on the irradiation of samples in the ADS considered. 1 Introduction 2 ADS description The scope of this work is the study via Monte Carlo The geometry of the subcritical core is derived from 5 simulations with the MCNP6 1 and MCB 2 codes of a where the accelerator driver is a 70 MeV proton beam fast lead based subcritical system to perform integral generated by a commercial cyclotron. With respect to the measurements. Such a system .
