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Descripción
Authors: S. Becerril, J. Castellanos, F. Arbeiter, D. Bernardi, A. Ibarra, I. Podadera, W. Krolas, System Responsible Officers of Test Systems
As general experimental and irradiation capabilities three planned spaces or experimental areas are currently planned in the facility: The Test Cell, the Complementary Experiments area, room 160, located just behind the Test Cell and connected with it by a neutron line, and the room 026, located below the accelerator areas.
Firstly, the Test Cell is a special room considered as the core of the facility. Within it, fusion-like neutrons will be produced at the highest fluxes up to 1-5x1014 n/cm2/s in the high-flux region. Downstream to this region, still inside the TC, space will be available for irradiation at lower neutron fluxes in the mid- and low-flux regions. Therefore, the TC will allow irradiation of several modules at the same time to ensure maximum utilisation of the neutron flux.
Secondly, the Complementary Experiments area, room 160, just behind the Test Cell, will be provided with significant neutron fluxes available for a wide range of experiments in many different areas such as e.g. material and biological sciences, neutron radiography and tomography or nuclear medicine for radioisotope productions. Amongst the requirements applicable to this room, an important one consists of avoiding any interference with the main experiments conducted in the Test Cell as well as enhancing in-person accessibility while the TC is in operation.
Last but not least, an experimental hall, room 026, below the accelerator vault will receive a small fraction of the deuteron beam to potentially conduct experiments in broad areas inside technological and scientific knowledge. This size of this hall is large enough to envision implementation of a secondary neutron target connected to a neutron Time-of-Flight experiment.
Therefore, IFMIF-DONES is being designed as a highly flexible facility where a wide range of fusion and non-fusion experiments can be implemented by the users. Further detailes and a complete description of those capabilities offered by IFMIF-DONES to the community is given through the present work.
