KURRI, Osaka
University of Fukui, Faculty of Engineering, Fukui
In Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute (KURRI), The FFAG accelerator complex for accelerator driven sub-critical reactor (ADSR) project has been already constructed and world first ADSR experiment has been done at May, 2009. In the main ring, proton beams of 11.5 MeV are injected and accelerated up to 100 MeV. During the acceleration, two different types of beam loss have been observed. To investigate these beam loss, betatron and synchrotron motion have been measured experimentally. The details of measurements will be described in this presentation.
Manchester University, Manchester
UMAN, Manchester
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield
Thorium fueled Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactors have been proposed as a more comprehensive alternative to conventional nuclear reactors for both energy production and for burning radioactive waste. Several new classes have been added by the authors to the GEANT4 simulation code, extension which allows the state-of-the-art code to be used for the first time for nuclear reactor criticality calculations. In this paper we investigate the impact of the subcriticality and injected proton beam energy on the ADSR performance for novel ADSR configurations involving multiple accelerator drivers and associated neutron spallation targets within the reactor core.
Muons, Inc, Batavia
Fermilab, Batavia
A Superconducting RF (SRF) Linac can be used for an accelerator-driven subcritical (ADS) nuclear power station to produce more than 5 GW electrical power in an inherently safe region below criticality, generating no greenhouse gases, producing minimal nuclear waste and no byproducts that are useful to rogue nations or terrorists, incinerating waste from conventional nuclear reactors, and efficiently using abundant thorium fuel that does not need enrichment. First, the feasibility of the accelerator technology must be demonstrated. We describe the Linac parameters that can enable this vision of an almost inexhaustible source of power and we discuss how the corresponding reactor technology can be matched to these parameters.
Muons, Inc, Batavia
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Magnet applications for high energy physics has long been an important driver for the development of superconducting technology. New high temperature superconductors (HTS), which have very high values of the upper critical field Hc2, show promise for magnets generating fields greater than 25 T, such as those required for muon cooling [1]. (Rare Earth)Ba2Cu3Oy (REBCO) coated conductor is an HTS material which is well suited to these needs; however it requires characterization in the low temperature (4.2 K), high magnetic field regime. We are proposing to measure electro-mechanical and magnetic properties, including angular field dependence of commercially available REBCO conductor. Here we present results of initial testing to characterize commercially available REBCO coated conductors at 77 K, including critical current and quench testing to calculate minimum the quench energy (MQE) and normal zone propagation velocity (NZPV).
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Nearly all risks to future generations arising from long-term disposal of used LWR nuclear fuel are attributable to the transuranic elements and long-lived fission products, about 2% of its content. The transuranic elements of concern are plutonium, neptunium, americium, and curium. Long-lived (>100,000-year half-life) isotopes of iodine and technetium are also created by nuclear fission of uranium. If we can reduce or otherwise securely handle this 2% of the used fuel, the toxic nature of the remaining used fuel after a few centuries of cooling is below that of the natural uranium ore that was originally mined for nuclear fuel. Only a small fraction of the available energy in the fuel is extracted on a single pass and the majority of the 'problem wastes' could be burned in fast-neutron spectrum reactors or sub-critical accelerator driven transmuters. The goals of accelerator transmutation are some or all of the following: 1) to significantly reduce the impacts due to the minor actinides on the packing density and long-term radiotoxicity in the repository design, 2) preserve/use the energy-rich component of used nuclear fuel, and 3) reduce proliferation risk.
KURRI, Osaka
University of Fukui, Faculty of Engineering, Fukui
World's first ADSR experiments which use spallation neutrons produced by high energy proton beams accelerated by the FFAG synchrotron has started since March 2009 at KURRI. In these experiments, the prompt and delayed neutrons which indicate neutron multiplication caused by external source have been detected. The accelerator complex for ADSR study in KURRI consists of three FFAG proton rings. It delivers the 100MeV proton beam to the W target located in front of the subcritical nuclear fuel system constructed in the reactor core of KUCA (Kyoto University Critical Assembly) at 30Hz repetition rate. Current status of the facility and the future plans of ADSR system and high intensity pulsed spallation neutron source which employ a newly added 700MeV FFAG synchrotron to the existing FFAG complex in KURRI will be presented.