Author: Erickson, J.L.
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MOPC068 LANSCE RF System Improvements for Current and Future Programs* 238
 
  • D. Rees, J.L. Erickson, R.W. Garnett, J.T.M. Lyles, L. Rybarcyk
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
 
  The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) is in the midst of an upgrade of the RF systems. This project will return LANSCE to its historical operating capability and sustain facility operations into the next decade. The LANSCE accelerator provides pulsed protons and spallation neutrons for defense and civilian applications. This project involves replacing all the existing 201 MHz RF stations and 805 MHz klystrons. LANSCE is also currently in the conceptual design phase of a program called the Material Test Station (MTS) to establish a 1 MW target station to irradiate fast reactor fuels and materials. A pre conceptual design is also in progress to extend the capabilities of MTS to a 2 MW target that will enable the first in a new generation of scientific facilities for the materials community. The emphasis of this new facility is "Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes" (MaRIE) which will be used to discover and design the advanced materials needed to meet 21st century national security and energy security challenges. The design and test results of the new RF systems will be presented as well as the RF system changes required to support the new missions.