FISSION PARAMETERS MEASUREMENTS FOR NP, PU, AM, AND CM ISOTOPES INSIDE A SALT BLANKET MICROMODEL

Pursuing verification of the nuclear data for actinides, we have made a run of experiments to determine reaction rates in facilities with different neutron spectra. The researches of the kind are particularly argent when going over from the transmutation physics studies to designing the transmutation reactors and developing their fuel cycle equipment. In this case, the nuclear data on the minor actinides (Np, Am, Cm) are notably interesting with the view to correct prediction of transmutation rates and t,o validation of hazardous nuclear and radiation environment for the external (off-reactor) fuel cycle. It is in the case of just those nuclides when the well-known ENDF/B6 and JENDL3.2 libraries give the most discrepant nuclear cross sections, thus necessitating the high- priority experimental tests.