[Eng-div] Fwd: Re: [Accelerator_staff] Accelerator Colloquium - 6/14/12

[Gayle Coleman]

REMINDER!

On 6/5/2012 9:05 AM, Audrey N. Barron wrote:
> ACCELERATOR COLLOQUIUM
>
> (1)Â  "Generation IV Advanced Nuclear Systems and Role of MYRRHA as 
> Waste Transmutation R&D Facility"
>
> Hamid Ait Abderrahim
> Belgium Nuclear Research Centre (SCK*CEN)
> Mol Belgium
>
> Nuclear fission energy is a proven technology that provides today 31% 
> of electricity in the EU-27, with reactors in 15 countries. It is the 
> largest source of low carbon electricity, saving nearly 900 mT of CO2 
> emissions a year. It contributes to Europeâ??s security of supply by 
> limiting the dependence on fossil fuel imports. Building up on its 
> present leading position, Europe has to invest in R&D to overcome 
> technological breakthroughs that would guarantee Europeâ??s future low 
> Carbon energy mix and energy security of supply.
>
> In this talk, we will report on this vision and on the innovative 
> nuclear systems as well as the status of the MYRRHA project and their 
> perspective and how this can lead to sustainable nuclear energy use.
>
>
> (2)Â Â  "The Linear Accelerator for MYRRHA ADS"
>
> Dirk Vandeplassche, Luis Romao Medeiros, Hamid Ait Abderrahim, Marc Schyns
> Belgium Nuclear Research Centre (SCK*CEN)
> Mol, Belgium
>
> Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS) are promising tools for the efficient 
> transmutation of nuclear waste products in dedicated industrial 
> installations, called transmuters. The MYRRHA project at Mol, Belgium, 
> placed itself on the path towards these applications with a 
> multipurpose and versatile system based on a liquid PbBi (LBE) cooled 
> fast reactor (80 MWth) that may be operated in both critical and 
> subcritical modes. In the latter case, the core is fed by spallation 
> neutrons obtained from a 600 MeV proton beam hitting the LBE 
> coolant/target. The accelerator providing this beam is a high 
> intensity CW superconducting linac delivering a 4 mA beam and which 
> will be laid out for the highest achievable reliability. The 
> combination of parallel redundant and of fault tolerance implementing 
> schemes should allow obtaining a beam MTBF value in excess of 250 
> hours that is required for optimal integrity and successful operation 
> of the ADS. MYRRHA is expected to be operational in 2023. The 
> forthcoming 3-year period is fully dedicated to R&D activities, and in 
> the field of the accelerator they are strongly focused on the 
> reliability aspects and on the proper shaping of the beam trip 
> spectrum. The R&D effort takes advantage of the highly modular 
> structure of the linac which allows for efficient prototyping.
>
> Thursday, June 14, 2012
> 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
> CEBAF Center, Room, F113
>
>
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