1. Emanuele (ESS), Alessandro (CERN), Mikel (Tekniker), Hayley (ISIS)
High intensity SC Linac for Energy Amplifier aka: HiSCLfEA CAS High power hadron machines, bilbao 2011
Emanuele (ESS), Alessandro (CERN),
Mikel (Tekniker), Hayley (ISIS)

2. Outline Goal Existing Facilities Solution Overview Components
Reliability
Location
Summary

3. Design Parameters
Conceptual design of an Accelerator Driven System (ADS) for energy production in subcritical reactor as well as for transmutation of nuclear waste. To achieve this goal we propose a CW proton facility capable to feed the reactor with 30 MW proton beam at 1 GeV.

4. Existing Facilities KURRI (ADSR Kyoto, Japan) MYHRRA (Belgium)
Research at Los Alamos (USA)
Research at TRASCO (Italy)

5. General Layout Super-conducting Linac Source RFQ DTL SC Linac Target
340 m
3,5 m
20 m
300 m
Source
RFQ
DTL
SC Linac
Target
LEBT
MEBT
50 keV
3 MeV
50 MeV
1 GeV

6. Proton Source Modelled on ECR Proton Source Proton Source
Output Energy
50 keV
Frequency
2.45 GHz
Max Beam Current
30 mA
Aperture
8 mm
Normalised Emittance
0.1 π mm mrad

7. RFQ 4-vane RFQ RFQ Input Energy 50 keV Output Energy 3 MeV Frequency
352 MHz
Max Beam Current
30 mA
Power Consumption
500 kW
Length
3.5 m

8. DTL (or Spokes...)
Robust concept derived from Linac4 and adapted to CW operation DEsign
DTL
Input Energy
3 MeV
Output Energy
50 MeV
Frequency
352 MHz
Max Beam Current
30 mA
Power Consumption
2 MW
Length
20 m

9. SC Linac 3 Sections of Elliptical Cavities at β-constant β = 0.45
β = 0.45
Input Energy
50 MeV
Output Energy
200 MeV
Frequency
704 MHz
Max Beam Current
30 mA
Power Consumption
10.5 MW
Length
70 m

10. SC Linac 3 Sections of Elliptical Cavities at β-constant β = 0.62
β = 0.62
Input Energy
200 MeV
Output Energy
500 MeV
Frequency
704 MHz
Max Beam Current
30 mA
Power Consumption
12 MW
Length
80 m

11. SC Linac 3 Sections of Elliptical Cavities at β-constant β = 0.8
β = 0.8
Input Energy
500 MeV
Output Energy
1000 MeV
Frequency
704 MHz
Max Beam Current
30 mA
Power Consumption
22.5 MW
Length
150 m

12. Target and sub-critical Reactor
Beam Energy
1 GeV
Beam Power
Up to 30 MW
ADS Power Consumption
50 MW
Spallation Target
Pb - Bi
Thermal Power
800 MW
Effective Electric Power
220 MW
Sub-criticality
0.95

13. Reliability Requirements
Required Reliability
Reliability Requirements
Number of Trips
< 3 trips per year
Loss
< 10E-6 loss per meter
Minimum Time Between Failures (MTBF)
> 250 hours

14. Suggested Location World’s most nuclear producing/consuming countries…
75.2%
63236 MW
28.9%
47348 MW MW
20.2%
Power the accelerator with “clean” energy
Transmutate French nuclear waste
Return power to the grid

15. Summary ADS Parameters Required Existing Facilities
Super-conducting Linac Solution
Reliability
Facility Location
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