Author: Van Gestel, F.
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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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