Status of Accelerator Driven Systems Research and Technology Development

Session

Session 2: ADS national programs

7 Feb 2017, 14:00

6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin (CERN)

Conveners

Session 2: ADS national programs

• Jean-Pierre Revol (Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi (IT))

2. IAEA and ADS

Stefano Monti (IAEA)

07/02/2017, 14:00

After a short introduction on the IAEA mission in seeking to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of nuclear energy to peace, health and prosperity through the world, the presentation will focus on the expected role that advanced nuclear technologies should play in the coming years in addressing some of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. In the framework of the IAEA support to Member...

3. Europe ADS project MYRRHA

Peter Baeten (SCK•CEN)

07/02/2017, 14:25

MYRRHA (Multi-purpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications) is a multipurpose research facility being developed since 1998 at SCK•CEN, based on the Accelerator Driven System (ADS) concept where a proton accelerator, a spallation target and a lead-bismuth cooled subcritical reactor are coupled. MYRRHA will demonstrate the ADS full concept by coupling these three components at a...

4. China ADS project

Wenlong Zhan (Institute of Modern Physics / Chinese Academy of China)

07/02/2017, 14:50

ADS has been evolving as ADANES (Accelerator Driven Advanced Nuclear Energy System) after intensive R&D last 5 years in CAS (Chinese Academy of Science). ADANES consist of the recycle fuel burner and the used fuel recycle. ADANES burner is optimized as nuclear waste transmutation, fissile material breeding and energy production in situ from traditional ADS. The fast core/blanket is designed to...

5. India ADS programme

Pitamber Singh (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre)

07/02/2017, 15:45

Accelerator Driven Systems have evoked considerable interest in the nuclear community the world over because of their capability to incinerate the minor actinides (MA) and LLFP (long-lived fission products) radiotoxic waste and utilization of Thorium as an alternative nuclear fuel. In the Indian context, due to our vast thorium resources, ADS is particularly important as one of the potential...

6. Japan ADS project

Takanori Sugawara (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

07/02/2017, 16:10

Partitioning and transmutation (P&T) technology of long lived radioactive nuclides such as minor actinides (MAs) will be a promising technology to reduce the burden of the geological disposal of the high-level radioactive waste (HLW). The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has been continuously performing research and development (R&D) on the P&T technology. The R&D on the P&T technology in...

8. Ukraine NSC KIPT ADS project

Yousry Gohar (Argonne National Laboratory)

07/02/2017, 16:35

Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) of USA and Kharkiv Institute of Physics & Technology (KIPT) of Ukraine are collaborating on the design, the construction, and the operation of an Accelerator Driven System (ADS) supported by the Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return (RRRFR) program of the United States Department of Energy. RRRFR is a trilateral initiative among the United States, the Russian...

9. USA Progress on SRF Linacs Driving Subcritical GEM*STAR Reactors

Rolland Johnson (Muons Inc.)

07/02/2017, 17:00

Scaling from the ORNL SNS 6% duty factor with 1.4 MW of beam on target to CW operation by appropriate upgrades of components, the traditionally considered Accelerator-Driven System (ADS) goal of 10 MW at 1 GeV is easily surpassed. However, studies have pointed out that even a few hundred trips of an accelerator lasting a few seconds could lead to unacceptable thermal stresses as each trip...