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Chalk River Plans for Intense, Continuous Neutron Source

JUL 01, 1968

DOI: 10.1063/1.3035059

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Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories of Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd. hopes to build a device called the “Intense Neutron Generator” that will produce $10^{16} thermal neutrons / {cm}^{2} / \sec$ continuously. In the design a linear accelerator produces a 65‐milliampere continuous beam of 1‐GeV protons that strikes a target of liquid lead–bismuth eutectic; neutrons come off through spallation reactions.

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