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Compact Neutron Sources for Energy and Security

Mitsuru Uesaka

Nuclear Professional School, University of Tokyo, 2-22 Shirakata-shirane, Tokai, Naka, Ibaraki, 319-1188, Japan

E-mail Address: uesaka@tokai.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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Hitoshi Kobayashi

KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan

E-mail Address: hitoshi.kobayashi@kek.jp

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793626815300108Cited by:6 (Source: Crossref)

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We choose nuclear data and nuclear material inspection for energy application, and nondestructive testing of explosive and hidden nuclear materials for security application. Low energy ( $\sim 100$ keV) electrostatic accelerators of deuterium are commercially available for nondestructive testing. For nuclear data measurement, electrostatic ion accelerators and L-band (1.428GHz) and S-band (2.856GHz) electron linear accelerators (linacs) are used for the neutron source. Compact or mobile X-band ( $9.3, 11.424$ GHz) electron linac neutron sources are under development. A compact proton linac neutron source is used for nondestructive testing, especially water in solids. Several efforts for more neutron intensity using proton and deuteron accelerators are also introduced.

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