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Small
Business I.C.
Gomes Consulting & Investment, Inc. 11
Huntington Circle, #12 Naperville,
IL 60540 Dr.
Itacil C. Gomes, Principal Investigator, Dr.
Itacil C. Gomes, Business Official, 630-640-6189 DOE
Grant No. DE-FG02-01ER86131 Amount:
$99,985 |
Research
Institution Argonne
National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue Building 362 Argonne,
IL 60540 |
Development
of a Computer Code System for Simulation of Target Performance for the Rare
Isotope Accelerator
The
target system for the Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) will consist of several
specially designed targets that utilize a wide variety of high power beams from
the driver accelerator. However,
the simulation of target performance has many drawbacks: (1) the computer codes
for the transport of beam particles and rare isotope production were developed
and maintained for other accelerator applications; (2) the database for rare
isotope release is sparse and incomplete; (3) no standard thermo-hydraulics code
is coupled to the transport code for heat deposition analysis; and (4) the
shielding analysis and radioactivity inventory requires a systematic approach
that is intrinsically integrated to other parts of the calculation.
This project will develop a computer code system that would integrate all
of the requirements for an RIA target design, including interaction of the
driver accelerator beam (light and heavy ions) with the target, heat deposition
and thermohydraulics of the target, rare isotope production and release,
radioactivity inventory, and shielding analysis. Phase I will assess available codes and databases, and
calculations will be performed to demonstrate the advantages of the
inter-operability between the codes.
Commercial
Applications and Other Benefits as described by awardee:
The computer code system should provide a benchmarked set of codes and
procedures, tested for RIA, that can be expanded to a variety of other
accelerator systems such as commercial accelerators for radioisotope production,
medical applications, and industrial uses.