Activation Analyses of Disposal Options for Irradiated Be12Ti
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Authors,
You presented a sound piece of scientific work providing the reader with comprehensive results relevant for radionuclide production. Except for two small issues, I strongly support the publication of your work.
Point 1: Please provide some additional details in section 2. You mention the differences and possible parameter flexibility, but you do not give detailed information on those. Please describe the parameters you chose for the calculations.
Point 2: in section 6, you discuss the (p,4n)-reaction on Se-80, however, you mistakenly name the same energy range as for the (p,2n)-process. Please check.
Author Response
The reviewer’s comments are confusing. There are no such discussions in the paper, that the reviewer is referring to. I think the comments were prepared for an another paper and they were occasionally copied. Therefore, no actions and no corrections were implemented.
Reviewer 2 Report
A very nice paper overall, thank you.
Authors state that "The main drawback of the HCPB blanket technology are very high capital expenses of this DEMO concept." In view of this and estimates given in the same paragraph for the future price of Be, in what dollar values are the prices given? In 2023 dollars, or in dollars projected to a future date? 2000$/kg seems to be a lot, but if this is in 2050 dollar values, it could be even less then 650$/kg in 2023 values. Can you please address this in the paper?
Author Response
In view of this and estimates given in the same paragraph for the future price of Be, in what dollar values are the prices given? In 2023 dollars, or in dollars projected to a future date? 2000$/kg seems to be a lot, but if this is in 2050 dollar values, it could be even less then 650$/kg in 2023 values. Can you please address this in the paper?
Answer: the following text is added:
Conservatively reasoning the future price for the Be12Ti industrial production for the DEMO needs could be estimated at least 1000¸2000 $/kg in dollar value in 30 years depending on the beryllium market evolution.
Reviewer 3 Report
Please find some minor suggestions/comments to improve the quality of your manuscript.
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Author Response
The corrections proposed were accepted and implemented in the text.
