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Programme spécifique: Euratom Site du projet MAX |
Début: 01/02/2011, Fin: 31/07/2014 |
Responsable scientifique IPN: Jean-Luc BIARROTTE |
Coordinateur: Jean-Luc BIARROTTE |
Description:
The collaborative MAX project ensues from the recommendations of the European Union’s Strategic Energy Technology Plan for the development and deployment of sustainable nuclear fission technologies in Europe. MAX will participate in addressing the issue of high‐level long‐lived radioactive waste transmutation by pursuing the development of the high‐power proton accelerator as specified by the MYRRHA Accelerator‐Driven System (ADS) demonstrator project in Belgium. The main goal of
the MAX project is to deliver an updated consolidated reference layout
of the MYRRHA LINAC with sufficient detail and adequate level of
confidence in order to initiate in 2015 its engineering design and
subsequent construction phase. To reach this
goal, advanced beam simulation activities will be undertaken and a
detailed design of the major accelerating components will be carried
out, building on several prototyping activities. A strong focus
will be put on all the aspects that pertain to the reliability and
availability of this accelerator, since the number of beam
interruptions longer than three seconds has to be minimized. Such
frequently‐repeated beam interruptions could indeed induce high thermal
stresses and fatigue on the reactor structures, the target or the fuel
elements, with possible significant damages especially to the fuel
claddings. In this context,
the MAX team expects to develop an accurate reliability model of the
MYRRHA accelerator by using the methodology applied for nuclear power
plants. On the other hand it is foreseen to experimentally prove the
feasibility of the innovative “fault‐tolerance” redundancy scheme, by
making extensive use of the prototypic accelerating module developed
during the previous FP6 EUROTRANS programme. MAX is divided into five work packages :
The overall coordination of the project, which involves 11 partners
from 6 different European countries, is ensured by CNRS-IPNO. |
Programme spécifique: Capacities Site du projet TIARA |
Début: 01/01/2011, Fin: 31/12/2014 |
Responsable scientifique IPN: Sébastien BOUSSON |
Coordinateur: Roy ALEKSAN, CEA |
Description:
The main objective of TIARA is the integration of national and international accelerator R&D infrastructures into a single distributed European accelerator R&D facility with the goal of developing and strengthening state-of-the-art research, competitiveness and innovation in a sustainable way in the field of accelerator Science and Technologies in Europe. Besides maximizing the benefits for the owners of the infrastructures and their users, TIARA aims at establishing a framework for developing and supporting strong joint European programmes : > for accelerator Research and Development |
Programme spécifique: Euratom Site du projet EVOL sur CORDIS |
Début: 01/12/2010, Fin: 30/11/2013 |
Responsable scientifique IPN: Sylvie DELPECH |
Coordinateur: Sylvie DELPECH, CNRS |
Description:
An innovative molten salt reactor concept, the MSFR (Molten Salt Fast
Reactor) is developed by CNRS (France) since 2004. Based on the
particularity of using a liquid fuel, this concept is derived from the
American molten salt reactors (included the demonstrator MSRE) developed
in the 1960s. The major drawbacks of these designs were (1) a short
lifetime of the graphite blocks, (2) a reactor fuelled with 233U, not a
natural fissile isotope, (3) a salt constituted of a high chemical toxic
element : BeF2, and (4) a fuel reprocessing flux of 4000 liters per day
required reaching a high breeding gain. However, this concept is
retained by the Generation IV initiative, taking advantages of using a
liquid fuel which allows more manageable on-line core control and
reprocessing, fuel cycle flexibility (U or Th) and minimization of
radiotoxic nuclear wastes. In MSFR, MSR concept has been revisited by
removing graphite and BeF2. The neutron spectrum is fast and the
reprocessing rate strongly reduced down to 40 litters per day to get a
positive breeding gain. The reactor is started with 233U or with a Pu
and minor actinides (MA) mixture from PWR spent fuel. The MA consumption
with burn-up demonstrates the burner capability of MSFR. |
Programme spécifique: Capacities Site du projet ENSAR |
Début: 01/09/2010, Fin: 31/12/2014 |
Responsable scientifique IPN: Fadi IBRAHIM |
Coordinateur: Muhsin Harakeh, GANIL |
Description:
ENSAR (project number : 262010) is the integrating activity for European nuclear scientists who are performing research in three of these major subfields : Nuclear Structure, Nuclear Astrophysics and Applications of Nuclear Science. Its core aim is to provide access to seven of the complementary world-class large-scale facilities : GSI (D), GANIL (F), joint LNL-LNS (I), JYFL (FI), KVI (NL), CERN-ISOLDE (CH) and ALTO (F). These facilities provide stable and radioactive ion beams of excellent qualities ranging in energies from tens of keV/u to a few GeV/u. ENSAR is funded by the European Commission within its Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) under the specific programme ’Capacities’. |
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