High Power SRF Linacs for ADS Reactors
We discuss plans to develop Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactor (ADSR) nuclear power stations producing more than 5 to 10 GWe in an inherently safe region below criticality, generating no greenhouse gases, producing minimal nuclear waste and no byproducts that are useful to rogue nations or terrorists, incinerating waste from conventional nuclear reactors, and efficiently using abundant thorium fuel that does not need enrichment. Fermilab is developing concepts for Project X [1], which would use a superconducting RF (SRF) linear proton accelerator to provide beams for particle physics at the intensity and energy frontiers. We propose to extend this linac design to serve as a prototype for a practical accelerator that can drive several nuclear reactors at once and also provide beams for reactor development. We also propose that a Recirculating Linear Accelerator be developed for ADSR applications by extrapolating from techniques developed for the CEBAF machine.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1975715
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-CONF-10-664-APC; IPAC-2010-MOPEA041; oai:inspirehep.net:870349
- Journal Information:
- Conf.Proc.C, Vol. 100523
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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