Linear accelerator for tritium production

Conference · Sun Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:208327

Garnett, R W; Billen, J H; Chan, K C.D. ^[1]

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For many years now, Los Alamos National Laboratory has been working to develop a conceptual design of a facility for accelerator production of tritium (API). The APT accelerator will produce high energy protons which will bombard a heavy metal target, resulting in the production of large numbers of spallation neutrons. These neutrons will be captured by a low-Z target to produce tritium. This paper describes the latest design of a room-temperature, 1.0 GeV, 100 mA, cw proton accelerator for tritium production. The potential advantages of using superconducting cavities in the high-energy section of the linac are also discussed and a comparison is made with the baseline room-temperature accelerator.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 208327
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-95-4438; CONF-9510263-6; ON: DE96006328; TRN: 96:009274
• Resource Relation: Conference: 8. International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) advanced beam dynamics workshop on space charge dominated beams and applications of high brightness beams, Bloomington, IN (United States), 11-13 Oct 1995; Other Information: PBD: [1995]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION
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TRITIUM
PROTON BEAMS
LAMPF LINAC
PHASE SPACE
SPECIFICATIONS