Author: Kim, J-Y.
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THPS103 The Proton Engineering Frontier Project: Status and Prospect of Proton Beam Utilization 3675
 
  • K. R. Kim, Y.-S. Cho, B.H. Choi, J-Y. Kim, K.Y. Kim, J. W. Park
    KAERI, Daejon, Republic of Korea
 
  Funding: This work has been supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, Republic of Korea.
A 100-MeV, 20-mA high in­ten­si­ty pro­ton linac is to be con­struct­ed in 2012 by the PEFP (Pro­ton En­gi­neer­ing Fron­tier Pro­ject) of the Korea Atom­ic En­er­gy Re­search In­sti­tute, which was start­ed in 2002 with three main ob­jec­tives; de­vel­op­ment of high in­ten­si­ty pro­ton linac, de­vel­op­ment of pro­ton beam uti­liza­tion tech­nolo­gies, and in­dus­tri­al­iza­tion of de­vel­oped tech­nolo­gies. Pro­ton beams with vari­able en­er­gy and cur­rent can be pro­vid­ed to the users from var­i­ous re­search and ap­pli­ca­tion fields such as nano-, bio-, semi­con­duc­tor-, space-, ra­di­a­tion-, en­vi­ron­ment-tech­nolo­gies and med­i­cal- and basic sci­ences, etc. through 10 tar­gets rooms, which are as­signed spe­cif­ic ap­pli­ca­tion fields to meet var­i­ous user’s beam re­quire­ments. Fol­low­ing a brief in­tro­duc­tion to the ac­cel­er­a­tor de­vel­op­ment, mul­ti­ple beam­line de­vel­op­ment and the con­struc­tion works, we will re­view the achieve­ments of our user pro­gram which have been op­er­at­ed over the past 8 years to cul­ti­vate and fos­ter pro­ton beam users and beam uti­liza­tion tech­nolo­gies in di­verse R&D fields. In ad­di­tion, we will dis­cuss the per­spec­tives of the beam uti­liza­tion in con­junc­tion with de­sign and con­struc­tion of user fa­cil­i­ties.