Developement of crisp package for spallation reaction studies and its utilization in ADS (Accelerator Driven System)

Abstract

The progress of nuclear physics had allowed a better understanding of nuclear structure and reaction mechanisms, but also enables important applications of nuclear energy in our modern way of life. We can point out those ones related to power generation from nuclear reactors, providing an almost inexhaustive power source due to the huge quantities of nuclear fuel existent in our planet, which guaranties its utilization for thousands of years. The main interest is the so-called Hybrid Reactors (ADS - Accelerator Driven System), in which the reactor has a sub critical core and the chain reaction is sustained by an external source that comes from spallation reactions induced by high energy protons (about 1 GeV) from an accelerator, producing a large number of secondary particles (mainly neutrons). For those applications, precise knowledge about nuclear structure and nuclear reaction characteristics is needed.