Acknowledgement
This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11805253, 11905272, 11775282), the CAS Strategic Priority Research Program-Future Advanced Nuclear Fission Energy (XDA03000000) and the Large Research Infrastructures of 12th Five-Year Plan: China initiative Accelerator Driven System.
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