Sep 7 – 11, 2026
Buenos Aires, Argentina
America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires timezone

Post-HBRR Common Vacuum Housing Shielding on HB4 at the High Flux Isotope Reactor

Sep 9, 2026, 10:00 AM
15m
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Buenos Aires, Argentina

IFIByNE (CONICET-UBA) - Intendente Güiraldes 300 Buenos Aires Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
Oral Presentation Shielding

Speaker

Kyle Grammer (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Description

The High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is plan-
ning the replacement of the permanent beryllium reflector. During this outage,
all of the cold guide hall instruments will be removed and reinstalled with new
supermirror guides, vacuum casings, and modifications/replacement of some ex-
isting shielding. The new Cold Guide Hall guide network will have six primary
neutron beamlines rather than the current four, which presents challenges due
to limited spacing of the neutron beamlines. Additionally, streaming of neutrons
and gammas through the vacuum network into the cold guide hall must be mit-
igated for personnel dose reasons. The current status of the planned vacuum
network through the HB4 tunnel and shielding updates will be discussed.

Key Words

cold neutrons
shielding

Author

Kyle Grammer (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Co-authors

Cristina Boone (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Nick Boucher (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Ron Conaway (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Michael Hoffmann (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Stephanie Jolley (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Ryan Mangus (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Chris Marcus (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Oscar Martinez (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) John Ramsey (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

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