The LBM Program at the EPFL/LOTUS Facility

J. File; D. L. Jassby; F. Y. Tsang; P.-A. Haldy; W. R. L&eacute;o; G. Woodruff

doi:dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24857

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The LBM Program at the EPFL/LOTUS Facility

J. File, D. L. Jassby, F. Y. Tsang, P.-A. Haldy, W. R. Léo, G. Woodruff

Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 10 / Number 3P2A / November 1986 / Pages 952-957

Lithium Blanket Module Program at the LOTUS Neutron Source Facility / Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24857

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An experimental program of neutron transport studies of the Lithium Blanket Module (LBM) is being carried out with the LOTUS point-neutron source facility at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Preliminary experiments use passive neutron dosimetry within the fuel rods in the LBM central zone, as well as, both thermal extraction and dissolution methods to assay tritium bred in Li₂O diagnostic wafers and LBM pellets. These measurements are being compared and reconciled with each other and with the predictions of two-dimensional discrete-ordinates and continuous-energy Monte-Carlo analyses of the LOTUS/LBM system.