Status of Accelerator Driven Systems Research and Technology Development

from Tuesday, February 7, 2017 (1:00 PM) to Thursday, February 9, 2017 (1:00 PM)
CERN (6/2-024)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Feb 7, 2017
Feb 8, 2017
Feb 9, 2017
AM
9:00 AM
Session 3 : Critical aspects of accelerators -Dr Dirk Vandeplassche (SCK GEN) (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM Overview of specifications and issues of ADS-drivers - Alex Mueller (ACM Consult GmbH)  
9:30 AM High power single stage cyclotron - Matthieu Conjat (AIMA Developpement)  
10:00 AM Proton linacs as ADS drivers - Frédéric Bouly (CNRS/IN2P3/LPSC)  
10:30 AM --- coffee break ---
10:50 AM Alternative designs for ADS drivers: FFAGs and electrons - Roger Barlow (University of Huddersfield (UK))  
11:20 AM The Strong-Focusing Cyclotron: 800 MeV, 8 MW CW driver for ADS fission - Peter McIntyre  
9:00 AM
Session 5: Innovative ideas and new R&D -Dr Markus Nordberg (CERN) (until 11:45 AM)
9:00 AM Development of high power target :dense granular flow by gravity - Lei Yang (video)  
9:20 AM CYCLADS: an EU FET proposal for high power cyclotron conceptual design. - Marcello Losasso (CERN)  
9:45 AM Novelty of the LFR-AS-200 project - Luciano Cinotti (Hydromine Nuclear Energy SARL)  
10:10 AM New thermal management technology for ADS fission in a molten salt core - Peter McIntyre  
10:35 AM the ADS-Troitsk project - Stanislav Sidorkin (Institute for Nuclear Research Russian Academy of Sciences)  
11:00 AM An ADS irradiation facility for fast and slow neutrons - Fabio Panza (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Genova)  
11:25 AM Tram brainstorming - a dynamic beam window for ADS - Alex Mueller Fritz Caspers  
11:30 AM --- coffee break ---
11:45 AM
Conclusions (until 12:45 PM)
11:45 AM Summary of session 2: national ADS programs - Jean-Pierre Revol  
12:00 PM Summary of session 3: critical aspects of accelerators - Dirk Vandeplassche  
12:15 PM Summary of session 4: targets and coupling experiments - Annick Billebaud  
12:30 PM Summary of session 5: innovative ideas and new R&D - Markus Nordberg  
PM
1:30 PM
Session 1: introduction -Dr Maurizio Vretenar (CERN) (until 2:00 PM)
1:30 PM Welcome session - Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)  
1:45 PM Workshop introduction: ADS and the environment - Maurice Bourquin (iThEC)  
2:00 PM
Session 2: ADS national programs -Dr Jean-Pierre Revol (Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi (IT)) (until 5:40 PM) (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
2:00 PM IAEA and ADS - Stefano Monti (IAEA)  
2:25 PM Europe ADS project MYRRHA - Peter Baeten (SCK•CEN)  
2:50 PM China ADS project - Wenlong Zhan (Institute of Modern Physics / Chinese Academy of China)  
3:15 PM --- coffee break ---
3:45 PM India ADS programme - Pitamber Singh (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre)  
4:10 PM Japan ADS project - Takanori Sugawara (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)  
4:35 PM Ukraine NSC KIPT ADS project - Yousry Gohar (Argonne National Laboratory)  
5:00 PM USA Progress on SRF Linacs Driving Subcritical GEM*STAR Reactors - Rolland Johnson (Muons Inc.)  
12:00 PM --- lunch ---
1:30 PM
Session 4: Targets and coupling experiments -Dr Annick Billebaud (until 5:45 PM)
1:30 PM Overview of the achieved coupling experiments on zero power facilities - Dr Frederic Mellier (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)  
2:00 PM The GUINEVERE facility and associated experimental programs and outputs - Dr Peter Baeten  
2:30 PM Experimental Benchmarks on Accelerator-Driven System at Kyoto University Critical Assembly - Dr Song Hyun Kim (Nuclear Engineering Science Division, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University,)  
2:55 PM The zero power CLEAR-0 facility project and future programs - Dr Chao Liu  
3:20 PM --- coffee break ---
3:40 PM MegaPIE and its post-irradiation examination - Michael Wohlmuther  
4:05 PM The ESS target design and beam raster system - Rikard Linander (ESS)  
4:30 PM Beam window design for ADS systems in JAEA - Takanori Sugawara (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)  
4:55 PM Overview of high power targets for an ADS - Karel Samec (iTheC)  
7:30 PM --- Workshop dinner in Geneva ---