Accelerator-Driven Systems (ADS) Physics and Motivations

The physics of Accelerator-Driven Systems (ADS) includes accelerator physics, the physics of neutron production by spallation from a particle beam, the …

Accelerator driven systems (ADS) for energy production …

A total of 2336 bibliographic records on Accelerator Driven Systems for Energy Production and Waste Transmutation were downloaded and analyzed. These records were grouped under six separate categories (1) target systems. (2) Blanket/fuel systems. (3) Materials studies. (4) Experiments and computer simulation codes.

Uncertainty Assessment for Accelerator-Driven Systems

@article{osti_11846, title = {Uncertainty Assessment for Accelerator-Driven Systems}, author = {Palmiotti, G. and Finck, P. J. and Gomes, I. and Micklich, B. and Salvatores, M.}, abstractNote = {The concept of a subcritical system driven by an external source of neutrons provided by an accelerator ADS (Accelerator Driver System) has …

Accelerator driven systems: Energy generation and …

@misc{etde_602532, title = {Accelerator driven systems: Energy generation and transmutation of nuclear waste. Status report} author = {None} abstractNote = {The report includes 31 individual contributions by experts from six countries and two international organizations in different areas of the accelerator driven transmutation technology …

Accelerator and Target Technology for Accelerator …

1.1 History of Accelerator Driven System Activities. Since the early 1990's, accelerator driven systems (ADS) – subcritical assemblies driven by high power proton accelerators through a spallation target which is neutronically coupled to the core – have been proposed for addressing certain missions in advanced nuclear fuel cycles ...

Stable multi-GeV electron accelerator driven by waveform …

In the chirp-free case, the electron spectrum shows an energy peak near 1 GeV with broad energy spread, and the peak energies were significantly reduced to 0.5 GeV with negative GDD's.

Accelerator driven systems for transmutation and energy …

Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS) are an old technological idea: Relativistic proton accelerators deliver their beams onto massive heavy element targets, thus …

A Sub-Critical Accelerator-Driven System (ADS) for …

accelerator driven sub-critical systems, and to serve as a neutron source for investigating the properties of ... (Maxwellian spectrum with average energy ≈ 2 MeV). This accelerator and its associated beam transport system were placed into operation during the time frame 1997 – 2000. The next step was the design and the construction of a ...

Nuclear data for accelerator driven systems: Nuclear …

An outline is presented of the status of nuclear data evaluation for accelerator driven systems. The international effort consists mainly of measuring, compiling and calculating nuclear data for elements and isotopes relevant for transmutation of radioactive waste, energy amplification and other accelerator-related nuclear …

Accelerator and Target Technology for Accelerator Driven …

Since the early 1990's, accelerator driven systems (ADS) – subcritical assemblies driven by high power proton accelerators through a spallation target which is …

Review of research and development of accelerator-driven system …

An accelerator injects 1.5 GeV proton beam through a beam window into the spallation target region located at the center of the subcritical core. Fuel material of the subcritical E Fig. 11 Concept of Pb-Bi cooled accelerator- driven transmutation system Accelerator-driven system in Japan 119 core is actinide mono-nitride.

Accelerator and Target Technology for Accelerator …

The White Paper • A Working Group was tasked through DOE/OHEP withA Working Group was tasked through DOE/OHEP with producing a White Paper on Accelerator and Target technology for Accelerator-Driven Systems (ADS) • The White Paper was intended to address the technical requirements for ADS the current status of …

A novel cost analysis method for accelerator driven …

The Accelerator Driven Advanced Nuclear Energy System (ADANES) is currently undergoing research and development (R&D), presenting challenges in cost estimation due to significant uncertainties. Traditional nuclear power cost assessment methods, tailored for mature technologies, lack relevance for advanced systems like ADANES. ...

Concept of an Accelerator-Driven Advanced Nuclear Energy …

To address these challenges, we propose an accelerator-driven advanced nuclear energy system (ADANES), consisting of a burner system and a fuel recycle system. In …

Schemes for the Accelerator-driven System

Accelerator-Driven system (ADS) is considered the fu-ture nuclear reactor. In principle, it is safer and creates less waste than the conventional nuclear reactor, and provides the …

Concept of an Accelerator-Driven Advanced …

The burner system is a nuclear reactor (power: 0.5–2 GW) formed by coupling a nuclear reactor core with a high-energy accelerator-driven neutron source as shown in Figure 2. The neutrons needed for …

Compact ultracold neutron source concept for low-energy accelerator

The compact UCN source in this paper represents a small-scale, accelerator-based UCN source. A conceptual design of the compact UCN source is shown in Fig. 1.In the compact UCN source, a small-scale low-energy proton accelerator such as a linear accelerator (LINAC) or a cyclotron generates a proton beam with an energy of …

Accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor system (ADS) for nuclear energy

Driven by a strong source of neutron from spallation reactions, the acceleratordriven subcritical system (ADS) has also been proposed as an energy-producing reactor (Clausse et al., 2015; Kapoor ...

The physics of accelerator driven sub-critical reactors

In recent years, there has been an increasing worldwide interest in accelerator driven systems (ADS) due to their perceived superior safety characteristics and their potential for burning actinides and long-lived fission products. Indian interest in ADS has an additional dimension, which is related to our planned large-scale thorium …

Accelerator driven system for transmutation and …

This can be achieved by interaction between nuclear waste and neutrons (n,xn)-reactions and radiative captive). The ADS (Accelerator Driven System) is the most promising tool for such transmutation. ADS consists …

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Accelerator Driven Subcritical System (ADS) has attracted attention in many countries due to its high transmutation ability and inherent safety. ... YALINA Facility A Sub-critical Accelerator-Driven System (ADS) for Nuclear-Energy Research Facility Description and an Overview of the Research Program (1997–2008), Nuclear Engineering Division ...

Accelerator driven systems (ADS) for energy production …

The Thorium based Accelerator driven System with Simplified Fuel Cycle (TASSE) concept utilized the molten salt system for long-term energy production with its inherently safe method. Cost based optimizations of power density and target/blanket modularity for Th 232 and U 233 based ADEP were carried out in the USA and France.

Concept of an Accelerator-Driven Advanced …

Concept of an Accelerator-Driven Advanced Nuclear Energy System. CC BY 4.0. Authors: Xuesong Yan. Lei Yang. Nanjing University. Xunchao Zhang. Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of...

Strategies of eliminating nuclear waste using accelerator …

Volume 185, 1 June 2023, 109713. Strategies of eliminating nuclear waste using accelerator-driven system in the transition stage for sustainable and clean nuclear …

Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser

Particle accelerators based on laser- or electron-driven plasma waves promise compact sources for relativistic electron bunches. Here, Kurz and Heinemannet al. demonstrate a hybrid two-stage ...

Transient analyses for China initiative Accelerator Driven …

China initiative Accelerator Driven System (CiADS) is a 10 MW lead–bismuth eutectic (LBE) cooled subcritical reactor loaded with UO 2 fuels in the first phase, which is designed to demonstrate the engineering feasibility of the ADS concept. The transient analyses were performed to show the safety potential and dynamic …

OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIES ON ACCELERATOR DRIVEN …

Accelerator Driven Subcritical system; BRAHMMA, Reactivity AccApp '17, Quebec, Canada, July 31-August 4, 2017 243. 1. INTRODUCTION ... parallel stage is high current accelerator development with Low Energy High Intensity Particle Accelerator (LEHIPA) as first phase and high energy high current (~1 GeV, 10 mA) as second phase …