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Development and Validation of an Adaptive Accurate Radiotherapy System KylinRay
Traditional accurate radiotherapy includes accurate positioning, planning and delivery. With the development of adaptive radiotherapy techniques, it is necessary to accurately verify the dose delivered during ...
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Material Neutron Irradiation Damage
Material neutron irradiation damage refers to the microstructural change and performance degradation of material induced by neutron irradiation [1]. These changes caused by collision displacement, transmutation, ...
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Comprehensive Neutronics Simulations
Comprehensive neutronics simulations are coupled simulations of neutron and multiple neutron-related physical effects for the entire space and life cycle of nuclear systems. The key goal of comprehensive neutr...
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Neutronics Design of Fusion Systems
A fusion system is a facility that could utilize the energy released via a fusion reaction in a controllable and peaceful way. There are many facilities based on different methods to achieve the fusion reactio...
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Neutronics Experimental Facilities and Technologies
Neutronics experiments are important parts of neutronics research for nuclear systems. Neutronics experimental facilities contain accelerator-based neutron sources and nuclear systems. Neutronics experiments i...
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Introduction
Energy is indispensable for social and economic development and is vital for improving human welfare and quality of life. Fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas, have been major sources of energy ove...
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Neutronics Experiments of Fusion Systems
Since the 1950 s, with the development of fusion systems, many fusion neutron source facilities have been built around the world. A series of experiments have been performed to support the development of fusio...
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Neutron Kinetics
Neutron kinetics is dedicated to studies of the time-dependent neutron behavior of nuclear systems over a short time range (typically from microseconds to seconds) and the factors that affect this behavior [1]...
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Radiation Dosimetry and Biological Safety
Radiation of nuclear systems mainly comes from neutrons, photons, charged particles, and radionuclides produced by nuclear reactions between neutrons and materials. Radionuclides can migrate from the reactor t...
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Nuclear Data Libraries
The neutronics simulation of nuclear systems relies on the availability of nuclear data to provide accurate numerical representation of the underlying physical processes. Essential nuclear data include energy-...
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Neutronics Design of Advanced Fission Systems
Advanced fission systems mainly refer to fourth-generation nuclear systems represented by six typical reactor types: lead-based fast reactors (LFRs), very-high-temperature reactors (VHTRs), sodium-cooled fast ...
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Neutronics Design of Hybrid Nuclear Systems
Hybrid nuclear systems, rather than a self-sustained chain reaction, are subcritical nuclear systems using additional neutrons from an external neutron source to sustain a chain reaction. Once the external neu...
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Neutronics Experiments of Advanced Fission Systems
Neutronics experiments can be classified into three main categories: measurement and validation experiments for nuclear data, validation experiments for neutronics methods and codes, and validation experiments...
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Steady-State Neutron Transport Theory and Simulation
Neutron transport theory is the research basis for neutronics and focuses on the description of neutron motion in media and the corresponding laws. There are two types of methods for neutron transport calculat...
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Neutronics Experiments of Hybrid Nuclear Systems
Since the concepts of hybrid nuclear systems were proposed in the 1950s, many designs and simulations of hybrid nuclear systems have been performed. Various neutronics experiments of hybrid nuclear systems hav...
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Neutron-Induced Transmutation
Transmutation is defined as the conversion of one nuclide into another, along with the corresponding change in the number of neutrons or protons in the resulting nucleus. Transmutation can be realized via nucl...
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Experimental Facilities of Fusion Neutronics
A neutronics experiment facility contains a neutron source, an experimental terminal and all the related equipment. The neutron source, which emits neutrons through a nuclear reaction, is the key device for ex...
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Neutronics Design Principles of Fusion-Fission Hybrid Reactors
Fusion-fission hybrid reactors could realize the early application of fusion energy and solve the problems associated with current fission energy, such as the accumulation of nuclear waste and the shortage of ...
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Introduction
Compared to fission systems, fusion systems, including fusion experimental reactors, fusion power reactors, fusion-fission hybrid reactors and fusion neutron sources, have many unique features, such as high ne...
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Neutron-Induced Transmutation and Activation
Transmutation is the conversion of one nuclide into another with a corresponding change in the number of neutrons or protons in the resulting nucleus. Transmutation can be achieved either by nuclear reactions ...
