Speaker
Mr
Mario Carta
(ENEA)
Description
ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development) hosts two neutron sources at the Casaccia Research Centre located about 25 kilometres (15 miles) northwest of Rome: the research reactors TRIGA RC-1 and TAPIRO.
TRIGA (Training Research Isotopes General Atomic) RC-1 is a pool thermal reactor operating since 1967, it has a maximum thermal power of 1 MW and it is equipped with several neutron channels available for materials irradiation with various neutron flux intensities and spectra.
TAPIRO (TAratura PIla Rapida a Potenza 0) is a fast neutron source reactor. It was licensed in 1971 with a maximum power of 5 kW. The project, entirely developed by ENEA’s staff, is based on the general concept of AFSR (Argonne Fast Source Reactor - Idaho Falls). This is certainly a facility unique in Europe, maybe all over the world, because the high quality of characterization of its neutronic field (TAPIRO can be considered as a "standard" fast neutron field, ideal for instruments calibration purposes).
The presentation will provide a short overview on the potentialities of the two reactors together with a synthetic panoramic about current and foreseen activities in both reactors.
Primary author
Mr
Mario Carta
(ENEA)
Co-authors
Mr
Alfonso Santagata
(ENEA)
Mr
Emilio Santoro
(ENEA)
Mr
Luca Falconi
(ENEA)
Mr
Mario Palomba
(ENEA)
Mr
Matteo Cesaroni
(ENEA)
