Application of Stable Lead Isotope Pb-208 in Nuclear Power Engineering and its Acquisition Techniques
( Nuclear Materials and Disaster Research )
Publication series ：Nuclear Materials and Disaster Research
Author： Georgy Levanovich Khorasanov (State Scientific Centre of the Russian Federation Institute for Physics and Power Engineering Kaluga Region Russian Federation)
Publisher： Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9781624176616
Subject： TL344 protective material
Keyword： Chemical Engineering
Language： ENG
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Description
The book provides an overview of the advantages in using lead enriched with stable lead isotope lead-208 instead of natural lead as a coolant of fast reactors (FRs) and accelerator driven systems (ADS). Lead-208 as a twice magic nucleus has low cross sections of neutron radiation capture and small moderation of neutrons in the range of neutron energies 10 eV – 20 MeV, i.e. in FR and ADS core neutron spectra. These unique features of lead-208 lead to the economy of neutrons, hardening the neutron spectra and other profitable factors.