PAC2013 - List of Authors (Collins, C.)

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Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Fission To Destroy Transuranics and Close the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

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P.M. McIntyre, S. Assadi, C. Collins, J. Comeaux, K.C. Damborsky, J.N. Kellams, F. Lu, T.L. Mann, K.E. Melconian, N. Pogue, A. Sattarov, E. Sooby, P.V. Tsvetkov
Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

Accelerator-driven subcritical fission in a molten salt core (ADSMS) can use depleted uranium or thorium as fuel and produce 1 GWe power while destroying the transuranics produced. ADSMS requires multiple proton beams of 800 MeV energy and 10 mA CW current. A strong-focusing cyclotron (SFC) is being developed that uses sector dipoles each configured as a flux-coupled stack, creating independent cyclotrons that can be integrated within a common footprint. This presentation will introduce a 4-stack SFC that can provide the beam power needed in an ADSMS core to destroy transuranics at the rate and proportion made in a commercial GWe power reactor while also producing 300 MWe of power, equivalent to a x5 energy amplifier.

Slides MOZAB1 [12.449 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
MOZAB1	Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Fission To Destroy Transuranics and Close the Nuclear Fuel Cycle	62
	P.M. McIntyre, S. Assadi, C. Collins, J. Comeaux, K.C. Damborsky, J.N. Kellams, F. Lu, T.L. Mann, K.E. Melconian, N. Pogue, A. Sattarov, E. Sooby, P.V. Tsvetkov Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
	Accelerator-driven subcritical fission in a molten salt core (ADSMS) can use depleted uranium or thorium as fuel and produce 1 GWe power while destroying the transuranics produced. ADSMS requires multiple proton beams of 800 MeV energy and 10 mA CW current. A strong-focusing cyclotron (SFC) is being developed that uses sector dipoles each configured as a flux-coupled stack, creating independent cyclotrons that can be integrated within a common footprint. This presentation will introduce a 4-stack SFC that can provide the beam power needed in an ADSMS core to destroy transuranics at the rate and proportion made in a commercial GWe power reactor while also producing 300 MWe of power, equivalent to a x5 energy amplifier.
	Slides MOZAB1 [12.449 MB]