Radiation Effects Program.
Abstract
Contents: (Feasibility Study of a LINAC Based Beam Heating Facility); No existing facility comes within a factor of ten of the needs of a high heating rate thermodynamic properties research facility. Also, that a facility could be built at the Naval Research Lab. for a cost in the neighborhood of 2 million dollars. The 10 MeV electron beam would not produce any serious radioactivity but would provide unprecedented beam power for such other applications as food processing, sewer treatment, materials curing, radiation hardness assurance, etc. (NRL LINAC Beam Characterization); One can always achieve lower current densities by scattering the beam and moving the device under test further away from the scatterer. In this case one must rely on the TLD readings to indicate the dose rate at the point of interest. For general utility with the beam covering about four TLD's fairly evenly one can claim that the NRL LINAC can produce a maximum dose rate of about 6 x 10 to the 10th power rads (Si) per second for a pulse length of 1.5 microseconds, and about 1.4x 10 to the 11th power rads (Si) per second in a 50 nanosecond pulse. In both cases the beam area is about 0.4 square centimeters. (Radiation Tests of the Ballaerospace Startracker).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 13, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA161000