IPN, Orsay
INFN/LASA, Segrate (MI)
SCK-CEN, Mol
CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
IAP, Frankfurt am Main
An Accelerator Driven System (ADS) for transmutation of nuclear waste typically requires a 600 MeV - 1 GeV accelerator delivering a proton flux of a few mA for demonstrators, and a few tens of mA for large industrial systems. Such a machine belongs to the category of the high-power proton accelerators, with an additional requirement for exceptional "reliability": because of the induced thermal stress to the subcritical core, the number of unwanted "beam-trips" should not exceed a few per year, a specification that is far above usual performance. This paper describes the reference solution adopted for such a machine, based on a so-called "fault-tolerant" linear superconducting accelerator, and presents the status of the associated R&D. This work is performed within the 6th Framework Program EC project "EUROTRANS".
IAP, Frankfurt am Main
Funding: * Work supported by BMBF contr. No. 06F134I & EU contr. No. EFDA/99-507ERB5005CT990061
The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) is looking for an efficient drift-tube linac (DTL) which can accelerate a 125mA, CW deuteron beam from 5MeV to 40MeV with a high beam quality and nearly no beam loss. Taking advantages of the KONUS dynamics concept and the H-type structure, a compact DTL design has been realized by IAP, Frankfurt University, with satisfying performances. Including simulated errors, the feasibility of the IAP scheme has been carefully checked as well.