IPAC2014 - List of Authors (Carneiro, J.-P.)

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THPRO099	Toward a Virtual Accelerator Control System for the MYRRHA Linac	3122
	J.-P. Carneiro Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA J.-L. Biarrotte IPN, Orsay, France F. Bouly LPSC, Grenoble Cedex, France L. Medeiros Romão, R. Salemme, D. Vandeplassche SCK•CEN, Mol, Belgium D. Uriot CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
	The MYRRHA project currently under development at Mol, Belgium, is an Accelerator Driven System expected to be operational in 2023 with the primary purpose to study the feasibility of efficiently transmuting nuclear waste products into isotopes with much shorter lifetimes. The reactor, which is expected to have a thermal power of ~70 MW, may be operated in subcritical mode when fed by spallation neutrons obtained from a 600 MeV superconducting proton linac hitting a Liquid Pb-Bi eutectic (LBE) target with an average current of 4 mA. The challenging aspect of the MYRRHA linac resides in its very high availability (close to 100%) with a Mean Time Between Failure expected to be higher than 250 hours. This paper presents the strategic approach taken during the design of the linac and its foreseen operation to fulfill this stringent requirement. In particular we will describe the concept of a beam dynamics based control system also called Virtual Accelerator which will be mandatory for the operation of such linac.
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Toward a Virtual Accelerator Control System for the MYRRHA Linac

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J.-P. Carneiro
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
J.-L. Biarrotte
IPN, Orsay, France
F. Bouly
LPSC, Grenoble Cedex, France
L. Medeiros Romão, R. Salemme, D. Vandeplassche
SCK•CEN, Mol, Belgium
D. Uriot
CEA/DSM/IRFU, France

The MYRRHA project currently under development at Mol, Belgium, is an Accelerator Driven System expected to be operational in 2023 with the primary purpose to study the feasibility of efficiently transmuting nuclear waste products into isotopes with much shorter lifetimes. The reactor, which is expected to have a thermal power of ~70 MW, may be operated in subcritical mode when fed by spallation neutrons obtained from a 600 MeV superconducting proton linac hitting a Liquid Pb-Bi eutectic (LBE) target with an average current of 4 mA. The challenging aspect of the MYRRHA linac resides in its very high availability (close to 100%) with a Mean Time Between Failure expected to be higher than 250 hours. This paper presents the strategic approach taken during the design of the linac and its foreseen operation to fulfill this stringent requirement. In particular we will describe the concept of a beam dynamics based control system also called Virtual Accelerator which will be mandatory for the operation of such linac.

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