Status of Accelerator Driven Systems Research and Technology Development

from Tuesday 7 February 2017 (13:00) to Thursday 9 February 2017 (13:00)
CERN (6/2-024)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
7 Feb 2017
8 Feb 2017
9 Feb 2017
AM
09:00
Session 3 : Critical aspects of accelerators -Dr Dirk Vandeplassche (SCK GEN) (until 12:00)
09:00 Overview of specifications and issues of ADS-drivers - Alex Mueller (ACM Consult GmbH)  
09:30 High power single stage cyclotron - Matthieu Conjat (AIMA Developpement)  
10:00 Proton linacs as ADS drivers - Frédéric Bouly (CNRS/IN2P3/LPSC)  
10:30 --- coffee break ---
10:50 Alternative designs for ADS drivers: FFAGs and electrons - Roger Barlow (University of Huddersfield (UK))  
11:20 The Strong-Focusing Cyclotron: 800 MeV, 8 MW CW driver for ADS fission - Peter McIntyre  
09:00
Session 5: Innovative ideas and new R&D -Dr Markus Nordberg (CERN) (until 11:45)
09:00 Development of high power target :dense granular flow by gravity - Lei Yang (video)  
09:20 CYCLADS: an EU FET proposal for high power cyclotron conceptual design. - Marcello Losasso (CERN)  
09:45 Novelty of the LFR-AS-200 project - Luciano Cinotti (Hydromine Nuclear Energy SARL)  
10:10 New thermal management technology for ADS fission in a molten salt core - Peter McIntyre  
10:35 the ADS-Troitsk project - Stanislav Sidorkin (Institute for Nuclear Research Russian Academy of Sciences)  
11:00 An ADS irradiation facility for fast and slow neutrons - Fabio Panza (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Genova)  
11:25 Tram brainstorming - a dynamic beam window for ADS - Alex Mueller Fritz Caspers  
11:30 --- coffee break ---
11:45
Conclusions (until 12:45)
11:45 Summary of session 2: national ADS programs - Jean-Pierre Revol  
12:00 Summary of session 3: critical aspects of accelerators - Dirk Vandeplassche  
12:15 Summary of session 4: targets and coupling experiments - Annick Billebaud  
12:30 Summary of session 5: innovative ideas and new R&D - Markus Nordberg  
PM
13:30
Session 1: introduction -Dr Maurizio Vretenar (CERN) (until 14:00)
13:30 Welcome session - Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)  
13:45 Workshop introduction: ADS and the environment - Maurice Bourquin (iThEC)  
14:00
Session 2: ADS national programs -Dr Jean-Pierre Revol (Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi (IT)) (until 17:40) (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
14:00 IAEA and ADS - Stefano Monti (IAEA)  
14:25 Europe ADS project MYRRHA - Peter Baeten (SCK•CEN)  
14:50 China ADS project - Wenlong Zhan (Institute of Modern Physics / Chinese Academy of China)  
15:15 --- coffee break ---
15:45 India ADS programme - Pitamber Singh (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre)  
16:10 Japan ADS project - Takanori Sugawara (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)  
16:35 Ukraine NSC KIPT ADS project - Yousry Gohar (Argonne National Laboratory)  
17:00 USA Progress on SRF Linacs Driving Subcritical GEM*STAR Reactors - Rolland Johnson (Muons Inc.)  
12:00 --- lunch ---
13:30
Session 4: Targets and coupling experiments -Dr Annick Billebaud (until 17:45)
13:30 Overview of the achieved coupling experiments on zero power facilities - Dr Frederic Mellier (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)  
14:00 The GUINEVERE facility and associated experimental programs and outputs - Dr Peter Baeten  
14:30 Experimental Benchmarks on Accelerator-Driven System at Kyoto University Critical Assembly - Dr Song Hyun Kim (Nuclear Engineering Science Division, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University,)  
14:55 The zero power CLEAR-0 facility project and future programs - Dr Chao Liu  
15:20 --- coffee break ---
15:40 MegaPIE and its post-irradiation examination - Michael Wohlmuther  
16:05 The ESS target design and beam raster system - Rikard Linander (ESS)  
16:30 Beam window design for ADS systems in JAEA - Takanori Sugawara (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)  
16:55 Overview of high power targets for an ADS - Karel Samec (iTheC)  
19:30 --- Workshop dinner in Geneva ---