A Design for the High Yield Photoneutron Source Target Station

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Your work is original and sound. It should be published after tiny corrections that are pointed out in the attached file (Reviewer report.pdf)

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Author Response

Thanks for the reivewer's nice comments. Please see the attachment.

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Reviewer 2 Report

This manuscript describes a conceptual design of a low-energy accelerator-driven neutron source. I believe this manuscript is out of the scope of this journal, Materials. A neutron source may contribute to the advancement of material characterization techniques, however, it requires many engineering steps to realize the neutron source described in the manuscript. Therefore, I recommend considering submitting this paper to other journals.

Before resubmission, the authors need to fix error messages of reference sources and misuses of capital/small letters.

Author Response

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Reviewer 3 Report

 

There are a large number of “Error! Reference source not found.” occurrences in the document that require correction.

 

Line 25: “have been proved to be that can play” should be “have proved to play”

 

Line 143: “may be” should be “is”

 

Line 191: suggest that ~1/100 be changed to ~1%

 

Line 299: define G-T mode and S-J mode

 

Line 370: “Figure 1” should be “Figure 7”

 

Line 385: should this refer to Figure 8 and some other figure?

 

Line 405: This should be Figure 8

 

Line 417: delete “an”

 

Line 439: “leads” is the wrong word. Maybe “means”?

 

Author Response

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

I understand the situation of the special issue. It may be better to comment that a heat removal function may be required for the polythene moderator for those who advance this neutron source project. A temperature increase of a polythene moderator is reported to be about 5 K within one hour in the case of a 1-kW class electron-accelerator-based neutron source. It suggests 50-kW neutron source needs cooling channels not only in a converter but also in other components.

Author Response

We thanks to the reviewers' nice advice. Please see the attachment for the point-by-point response.

As to the manuscript, we provide the following modifications:

• Add a new paragraph in Discussion section “Besides the major problem of heat dissipation ……would be conducted in the future study” to response to reviewer2’s comments.
• Add two citations, citation 25 and 26, with the former one referring to Hirotaku Ishikawa’s work in HUNS and the latter one referring to the thermal conductivity data source.
• In section 3.1, “… a layer of 0.5-mm-thick tantalum …” is corrected as “… a layer of 0.25-mm-thick tantalum …”.

Thank you for the consideration.

Yigang Yang.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf