LINAC2014 - List of Authors (Baylac, M.A.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPP137	Design Progress of the MYRRHA Low Energy Beam Line	381
	R. Salemme, L. Medeiros Romão, D. Vandeplassche Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie - Centre d'Étude de l'énergie Nucléaire (SCK•CEN), Mol, Belgium M.A. Baylac, D. Bondoux, F. Bouly, J.-M. De Conto, E. Froidefond LPSC, Grenoble Cedex, France J.-L. Biarrotte IPN, Orsay, France D. Uriot CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
	The MYRRHA project, a flexible spectrum neutron irradiation facility, is designed according to the Accelerator Driven System (ADS) reactor concept. The MYRRHA driver consists of a high power superconducting proton LINAC. A prototype of the front end injector is being built up into a test platform conceived to experimentally address its design issues. Currently, the ECR proton source has been industrially procured. LPSC Grenoble designed the subsequent Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT) section. Right before the RFQ, a short section hosts an electrostatic beam chopper producing carefully controlled beam interruptions. In this paper the status of the LEBT design with the associated beam instrumentation is reviewed. Future experimental plans including LEBT beam characterization and optimization of the beam transmission are presented.

TUPP100	Operation Of The Versatile Accelerator Driving the Low Power ADS GUINEVERE at SCK•CEN	659
TUPOL07	use link to see paper's listing under its alternate paper code
	M.A. Baylac, A. Billebaud, P. Boge, D. Bondoux, J. Bouvier, S. Chabod, G. Dargaud, E. Froidefond, E. Labussière, R. Micoud, S. Rey LPSC, Grenoble Cedex, France A. Kochetkov, J. Mertens, F. Van Gestel, C. Van Grieken, B. Van Houdt, G. Vittiglio SCK•CEN, Mol, Belgium F.R. Lecolley, J.L. Lecouey, G. Lehaut, N. Marie-Nourry CNRS/IN2P3/LPC CAEN, Caen, France
	GUINEVERE provides a low power accelerator driven system (ADS) to investigate on-line reactivity monitoring and operational procedures of an ADS. It consists of a versatile neutron source, GENEPI-3C, driving the fast sub-critical core, VENUS-F, in SCK•CEN (Belgium). GENEPI-3C is an electrostatic accelerator generating 14 MeV neutrons by bombarding a 250 keV deuteron beam onto a tritium target located within the reactor core. This accelerator produces alternatively continuous beam (up to 1 mA DC), possibly chopped with fast and adjustable interruptions, or short and intense deuteron bunches (~25 mA peak, 1 μs). This paper presents the facility and assesses the 2 years of coupled operation of the accelerator to the reactor.
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Design Progress of the MYRRHA Low Energy Beam Line

381

R. Salemme, L. Medeiros Romão, D. Vandeplassche
Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie - Centre d'Étude de l'énergie Nucléaire (SCK•CEN), Mol, Belgium
M.A. Baylac, D. Bondoux, F. Bouly, J.-M. De Conto, E. Froidefond
LPSC, Grenoble Cedex, France
J.-L. Biarrotte
IPN, Orsay, France
D. Uriot
CEA/DSM/IRFU, France

The MYRRHA project, a flexible spectrum neutron irradiation facility, is designed according to the Accelerator Driven System (ADS) reactor concept. The MYRRHA driver consists of a high power superconducting proton LINAC. A prototype of the front end injector is being built up into a test platform conceived to experimentally address its design issues. Currently, the ECR proton source has been industrially procured. LPSC Grenoble designed the subsequent Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT) section. Right before the RFQ, a short section hosts an electrostatic beam chopper producing carefully controlled beam interruptions. In this paper the status of the LEBT design with the associated beam instrumentation is reviewed. Future experimental plans including LEBT beam characterization and optimization of the beam transmission are presented.

TUPP100

Operation Of The Versatile Accelerator Driving the Low Power ADS GUINEVERE at SCK•CEN

659

TUPOL07

use link to see paper's listing under its alternate paper code

M.A. Baylac, A. Billebaud, P. Boge, D. Bondoux, J. Bouvier, S. Chabod, G. Dargaud, E. Froidefond, E. Labussière, R. Micoud, S. Rey
LPSC, Grenoble Cedex, France
A. Kochetkov, J. Mertens, F. Van Gestel, C. Van Grieken, B. Van Houdt, G. Vittiglio
SCK•CEN, Mol, Belgium
F.R. Lecolley, J.L. Lecouey, G. Lehaut, N. Marie-Nourry
CNRS/IN2P3/LPC CAEN, Caen, France

GUINEVERE provides a low power accelerator driven system (ADS) to investigate on-line reactivity monitoring and operational procedures of an ADS. It consists of a versatile neutron source, GENEPI-3C, driving the fast sub-critical core, VENUS-F, in SCK•CEN (Belgium). GENEPI-3C is an electrostatic accelerator generating 14 MeV neutrons by bombarding a 250 keV deuteron beam onto a tritium target located within the reactor core. This accelerator produces alternatively continuous beam (up to 1 mA DC), possibly chopped with fast and adjustable interruptions, or short and intense deuteron bunches (~25 mA peak, 1 μs). This paper presents the facility and assesses the 2 years of coupled operation of the accelerator to the reactor.

Slides TUPP100 [0.969 MB]