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REMINDER!<br>
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On 6/5/2012 9:05 AM, Audrey N. Barron wrote:
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ACCELERATOR COLLOQUIUM<br>
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(1)Â "Generation IV Advanced Nuclear Systems and Role of MYRRHA
as Waste Transmutation R&D Facility"<br>
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Hamid Ait Abderrahim<br>
Belgium Nuclear Research Centre (SCK*CEN)<br>
Mol Belgium<br>
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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 Europe’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 Europe’s future low Carbon energy mix and energy
security of supply.<br>
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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.<br>
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(2)Â Â "The Linear Accelerator for MYRRHA ADS"<br>
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Dirk Vandeplassche, Luis Romao Medeiros, Hamid Ait Abderrahim,
Marc Schyns<br>
Belgium Nuclear Research Centre (SCK*CEN)<br>
Mol, Belgium<br>
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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.<br>
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Thursday, June 14, 2012<br>
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.<br>
CEBAF Center, Room, F113<br>
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