Compton ring for nuclear waste management

This paper describes an intense gamma-ray source based on the Compton scattering of laser photons by the electrons circulating in the storage ring. Gamma-ray energies fall in the range from 1 to 5 MeV. This source is an ideal tool for nuclear waste management by the nuclear resonance fluorescence method. The Compton ring is also a very promising tool for application in novel technologies for express cargo inspection to prevent nuclear terrorism. A crab-crossing scheme in the ring lattice can be expected to permit a gamma-beam intensity of up to 5×1013 gammas/s with the latest laser and accelerator technologies.