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The conceptual scheme of an ecologically clean thermal neutron source (TNS) based on muon-catalyzed fusion (MCF) is proposed. The preliminary design shows that an MCF-based TNS can produce the maximum value of unperturbed thermal neutron flux 1015 n/cm2 s using for muon production a beam power of about 14 MW supplied by an accelerator of the next generation.
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Kuzminov, V.V., Petrov, Y.V. & Sakhnovsky, E.G. Intense thermal neutron source based on MCF. Hyperfine Interact 101, 655–659 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02227679
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