Status of Accelerator Driven Systems Research and Technology Development

Session

Session 4: Targets and coupling experiments

Feb 8, 2017, 1:30 PM

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

Conveners

Session 4: Targets and coupling experiments

• Annick Billebaud

Description

targets and coupling experiments

24. Overview of the achieved coupling experiments on zero power facilities

Dr Frederic Mellier (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)

2/8/17, 1:30 PM

The scientific and technological challenges relative to the integration, in a nuclear power facility, of the three main components of an ADS (an accelerator delivering a high-energy particle beam, a heavy metal spallation target acting as a neutron source when bombarded by ions and a subcritical multiplying medium possibly comprising significant amounts of MA and/or LLFP) are numerous. Their...

19. The GUINEVERE facility and associated experimental programs and outputs

Dr Peter Baeten

2/8/17, 2:00 PM

22. Experimental Benchmarks on Accelerator-Driven System at Kyoto University Critical Assembly

Dr Song Hyun Kim (Nuclear Engineering Science Division, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University,)

2/8/17, 2:30 PM

The accelerator-driven system (ADS) has been developed for producing energy and for transmuting minor actinides and long-lived fission products. In the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute, for the feasibility study of ADS, various experiments and numerical analyses related to ADS have been conducted with the combined use of the Kyoto University Critical Assembly (KUCA) and two types of...

25. The zero power CLEAR-0 facility project and future programs

Dr Chao Liu

2/8/17, 2:55 PM

Lead-based reactor is one of the most promising nuclear energy systems for Accelerator Driven subcritical System (ADS) and Generation-IV reactors. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) had launched a project to develop ADS and lead-based fast reactors technology since 2011. China LEAd-based Reactor(CLEAR) was selected as the reference reactor for ADS and fast reactor system, which was performed by...

26. MegaPIE and its post-irradiation examination

Michael Wohlmuther

2/8/17, 3:40 PM

The joint international MEGAPIE initiative – MegaWatt Pilot Experiment - aimed for the demonstration of designing, licensing, operating, dismantling, exploring and disposing a liquid metal spallation target at a beam power level of 1 MW. The initiative started in 1999 and resulted in the operation of the MEGAPIE target in the Swiss Intense Neutron Source (SINQ) in 2006. Thereafter, the target...

23. The ESS target design and beam raster system

Rikard Linander (ESS)

2/8/17, 4:05 PM

The European Spallation Source (ESS) is currently being constructed near the city of Lund in southern Sweden. When finalized and fully commissioned around 2025 it will be the world leading neutron scattering facility available to the science community. Unprecedented neutron flux and brightness will be achieved through the use of a state-of-the-art proton linear accelerator and a high-power...

20. Beam window design for ADS systems in JAEA

Takanori Sugawara (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

2/8/17, 4:30 PM

To reduce the burden of the geological disposal of high-level waste (HLW), the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has investigated an accelerator-driven system (ADS) to transmute minor actinide (MA) included in HLW. Since the ADS is a hybrid system of an accelerator and a subcritical core, there are various inherent issues in the research and development of the ADS. As one of the critical...

30. Overview of high power targets for an ADS

Karel Samec (iTheC)

2/8/17, 4:55 PM

A neutron spallation source for an Accelerator Driven System, commonly known as an ADS Target, must be able to function reliably and safely for the ADS concept to take hold as a viable option in the commercial sector. Targets operating at Megawatt level already exist but have, on the whole, been optimised with physics in mind. The "ideal" ADS target should, in addition to physics...