Residual activation of the SPES Front-End system: a comparative study between the MCNPX and FLUKA codes

Donzella, A.; Ferrari, Matteo; Zenoni, A.; Paderno, Diego; Bodini, Ileana; Villa, Valerio; Ballan, M.; Centofante, Lisa; Monetti, A.; Petrovich, C.; Zangrando, L.; Andrighetto, A.

doi:10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00068-1

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“…The SPES project is a facility for the production of radioactive ion beams (RIBs) that will operate in the next few years at the INFN Legnaro National Laboratories. Recently, extensive calculations were performed in CloudVeneto with FLUKA Monte Carlo code, to evaluate the residual radioactivity generated on the materials of the SPES production apparatus in different times after the beginning of the facility operation, and specifically to estimate the external exposure of the personnel operating in the facility [10,11]. These studies must necessarily be addressed in the design phase of the plant and must include all the operation phases, up to the final disposal of the facility.…”

Section: Applied Research In Nuclear Physics Use Casesmentioning

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The CloudVeneto initiative: 10 years of operations to support interdisciplinary open science

Andreetto,

Costa,

Crescente

et al. 2024

EPJ Web of Conf.

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CloudVeneto is a private cloud targeted to scientific communities based on OpenStack software. It was designed in 2013 and put in operation one year later, to support INFN projects, mainly HEP ones. Its resources are physically distributed among two sites: the Physics Department of University of Padova-INFN Padova Unit and the INFN Legnaro National Laboratories. During these 10 years CloudVeneto evolved to integrate also resources funded by ten Departments of the University of Padova, and to support several scientific disciplines of different domains. The use cases the communities have to face up often show a common pattern. This was an opportunity for us to develop and improve the services on our infrastructure to provide common solutions to different use cases. It happened for example with the Container as a Service (CaaS) that makes the management of Kubernetes clusters easier from a user point of view. Moreover, CloudVeneto joined the INFN national cloud infrastructure (INFN Cloud), making available some resources to this federated infrastructure. CloudVeneto is also involved in an R&D project to realize a distributed analysis facility for the CMS experiment based on the HTCondor batch system. In this paper we describe some use-cases of different projects pointing out the common patterns and the new implementations and configurations done in the infrastructure.

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Section: Applied Research In Nuclear Physics Use Casesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The CloudVeneto initiative: 10 years of operations to support interdisciplinary open science

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Costa,

Crescente

et al. 2024

EPJ Web of Conf.

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“…The progressive target efficiency reduction demands the replacement of the TIS unit on a constant schedule. Due of the extremely radioactive environment [6], a network of remote handling devices is used to take care of this need in an automated manner. Following the irradiation on the SPES Front-End, exhausted TIS units must be stored in a secure area for radioactive decay before being disassembled.…”

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The SPES target ion source automated storage system

Lilli,

Andrighetto,

Centofante

et al. 2024

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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At the SPES (Selective Production of Exotic Species) facility, intense Radioactive Ion Beams (RIBs) are produced by the interaction of a 40 MeV proton beam with a multi-foil uranium carbide target employing the Isotope Separation On-Line (ISOL) technique. The Target Ion Source (TIS) unit constitutes the core of the isotope production process. TIS units are replaced on a periodic basis during operation to maintain high performance. An automated storage system has been designed to accept highly radioactive TIS units and house them during a cooling period prior to decommissioning. The system is conceived to meet strict functional and safety requirements. Its peculiar design allows for improved reliability and availability during critical operations, as well as minimization of staff exposure to ionizing radiation during maintenance tasks. This contribution describes the design and control architecture of the Temporary Storage System (TSS). The equipment is part of a structured framework of remote manipulation, consisting of various machines interlocked with the Access Control System (ACS) and the Machine Protection System (MPS).

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Study of the radionuclide deposition in the radioactive ion line of the Selective Production of Exotic Species (SPES) facility

Monetti,

Donzella,

Ballan

et al. 2024

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

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Residual activation of the SPES Front-End system: a comparative study between the MCNPX and FLUKA codes

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

The CloudVeneto initiative: 10 years of operations to support interdisciplinary open science

The CloudVeneto initiative: 10 years of operations to support interdisciplinary open science

The SPES target ion source automated storage system

Study of the radionuclide deposition in the radioactive ion line of the Selective Production of Exotic Species (SPES) facility

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