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For the confirmation of effectiveness of external neutron source experimentally, Accelerator Driven System (ADS) experiments coupled with FFAG proton accelerator and Kyoto University Critical Assembly as a subcritical system were conducted at February, 2011. By foil activation method with Gold/Indium wires and foils after neutron irradiation at three different external neutron source positions, the variation of neutron multiplication was compared at active core region. The neutron flux increment by 164% and 143% were confirmed when tungsten foils as external source were close to close.
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This work was partly supported by a “Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming” of Global Center of Excellence (G-COE) program (J-051) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. A part of this study was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research form MEXT from Japan.
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Lim, JY., Pyeon, C., Misawa, T., Nakajima, K. (2012). ADS Experiments for the Effectiveness of External Source. In: Yao, T. (eds) Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2011. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54067-0_27
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