Thermal analysis for the high duty cycle PIMS accelerator

To develop the high power proton linear accelerator for the Accelerator Driven System(ADS)program,the preliminary design of the Pi mode accelerating structure(PIMS)has been carried out.It is estimated that PIMS would heat up to 80 ℃ for low duty cycle(0.1%)without water-cooling,which is not acceptable,thus water-cooling is demanded.The structure stability for the high duty cycle or even for CW operation is crucially important for the ADS application.Therefore,thermal analysis with water-cooling for a high duty accelerator in our ADS research is performed to control the frequency shift caused by a temperature rise.     

HWR010超导腔提取耦合器的优化设计

我国自主研发的超导加速器CAFe是ADS加速器的前端示范装置,其对加速器的运行稳定性有非常高的要求.在CAFe的运行中存在场致发射效应干扰超导腔提取信号的问题,是造成超导腔运行故障最频繁的问题之一,这严重降低了加速器的稳定性.这一问题是由于超导腔内的场致发射电子在相关微波传输器件上引起了放电现象,干扰了信号的传输并造成...     

与散裂中子靶物理相关的理论计算程序探讨 II厚靶计算

散裂中子靶是加速器驱动洁净核能系统的一个重要环节.相关的理论计算程序和蒙特 卡罗方法是研究该系统的散裂靶物理的一个重要手段.对相关程序进行了比对和介绍,并对SHIELD程序系统在中国的发展和在散裂靶物理上的应用作了介绍.     

磁力提升装置样机的数值分析与实验研究

研制的磁力提升装置实现了对加速器驱动次临界系统(ADS)新型钨基合金球靶材的电磁提升。其基本原理是通过控制一组螺线管的加电时序,实现磁场的移动,移动磁场作用于靶材完成其输运。螺线管作为该装置的主要部件,其结构影响电磁提升的效率。为优化其结构,采用Ansys Maxwell分析螺线管的磁场分布,确定螺线管结构。同时利用Ansys Maxwell给每个螺线管加不同宽度的脉冲进行数值模拟,通过调节每个螺线管的通断电时间和同时工作的螺线管单元数,模拟计算合金球的受力。在数值模拟的基础上完成了磁力提升装置样机的加工和实验研究,实现了钨基合金球输运的预期效果。     

与散裂中子靶物理相关的理论计算程序探讨I薄靶计算

利用中能强流质子加速器形成的散裂中子源作为外加中子源驱动次临界反应堆的洁净核能系统是目前国际上的一个研究热点 .散裂中子源是这个系统的一个重要部分 ,也是一个急需解决的重点.有关散裂靶物理的理论计算程序的建立和基准检验是目前工作的一个重点.The research for intermediate energy proton accelerator driven radiologically clean nuclear power system has attracted considerable attention. The spallation neutron source induced by intermediate energy proton nucleus interaction is a key point and has not solved yet for the transmutation and applications. The theoretical programs related to the spallation neutron source for accelerator driven system (ADS) are discussed at present work.     

The physics of accelerator driven sub-critical reactors

In recent years, there has been an increasing worldwide interest in accelerator driven systems (ADS) due to their perceived superior safety characteristics and their potential for burning actinides and long-lived fission products. Indian interest in ADS has an additional dimension, which is related to our planned large-scale thorium utilization for future nuclear energy generation. The physics of ADS is quite different from that of critical reactors. As such, physics studies on ADS reactors are necessary for gaining an understanding of these systems. Development of theoretical tools and experimental facilities for studying the physics of ADS reactors constitute important aspect of the ADS development program at BARC. This includes computer codes for burnup studies based on transport theory and Monte Carlo methods, codes for studying the kinetics of ADS and sub-critical facilities driven by 14 MeV neutron generators for ADS experiments and development of sub-criticality measurement methods. The paper discusses the physics issues specific to ADS reactors and presents the status of the reactor physics program and some of the ADS concepts under study.      

The R/D of high power proton accelerator technology in China

In China, a multipurpose verification system as a first phase of our ADS program consists of a low energy accelerator (150 MeV/3 mA proton LINAC) and a swimming pool light water subcritical reactor. In this paper the activities of HPPA technology related to ADS in China, which includes the intense proton ECR source, the RFQ accelerator and some other technology of HPPA, are described.     

CiADS超导直线加速器超导腔失效的分段补偿与冗余设计

加速器驱动次临界装置（ADS）对加速器运行稳定性和失束指标提出了前所未有的要求。对于超导直线加速器的研究发现,超导腔失效是失束的一个较大的来源,故针对超导腔的失效情况,本文提出分段补偿新方法,以提高高功率超导直线加速器的运行稳定性。提出的分段补偿方法与已有的全局补偿和局部补偿的方法相比,在保证加速器出口束流品质与无束损束流传输的同时,分段补偿束流能量,优化了参与能量补偿的超导腔数量,降低超导腔的备份功率源需求。论文最后针对CiADS的超导直线加速器的物理设计,做了分段补偿的多粒子模拟。结果表明,采用了分段补偿方法实现超导腔失效补偿的前提下,参与补偿过程中改变腔压的超导腔数量比例为48%,对功率源总的功率备份冗余需求小于20%。The accelerator driven subcritical system (ADS) has put forward unprecedented demands on the stability and beam trip of the accelerator operation. Depending on analysis, failure of the superconducting cavities is a major cause for beam trip of the superconducting cavity. Therefore, a new method of piecewise compensation is proposed to improve the stability of high power superconductivity linac. The piecewise compensation scheme proposed in this paper is compared with the existing global compensation and local compensation technology. While guaranteeing the beam quality of the accelerator and without beam loss transmission, the piecewise compensation method can optimize the number of superconducting cavities involved in energy compensation and reduce the demand for the backup redundancy of power sources of the superconducting cavities. At the end of the paper, the multi-particle simulation of piecewise compensation aims at the physical design of CiADS superconducting linac. The result shows that 48% of superconducting cavities modify the cavity's Epeak during the compensation process and the demanded redundancy of total power sources is less than 20% under the premise of successful compensation for the failure of superconducting cavities through the piecewise compensation method.     

加速器驱动次临界系统注入器Ⅱ数据归档系统

针对加速器驱动次临界系统(ADS)中强流质子直线加速器，即ADS注入器Ⅱ，设计了数据归档系统。该系统能实时采集加速器运行时各设备的状态信息和通过中央控制室远程发出的指令信息，为加速器调束人员和系统维护人员提供最真实的参考信息，方便故障排查和后期数据分析。系统基于以太网，运行于实验物理与工业控制系统EPICS(Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System)架构上，和设备的数据交换采用CA协议(Channel Access Protocol)。采用Keepalived和MySQL实现高可用数据库服务，采用ArchiveEngine作为数据采集工具，采用DataBrower进行数据查询和曲线绘制。对归档数据库进行了查询优化，并自行开发了数据库服务器和归档引擎的运行状态监控程序，从而保证了整个数据归档系统的稳定运行。通过现场运行，系统可满足ADS注入器Ⅱ运行要求，维护方便，只需将相应PV(Process Variable)信息添加到数据库channel表格中即可实现数据采集。     

加速器驱动次临界系统注入器离子源控制系统

强流质子源及低能传输线是加速器驱动次临界系统(ADS)项目注入器的重要组成部分,为了保证其工作效率设计了一种基于实验物理及工业控制系统(EPICS)架构的远程控制系统。根据被控设备硬件接口的特点及控制需求分别采用可编程控制器(PLC)和串口服务器等作为控制部件,在主控机中使用LabVIEW编程实现了对系统内所有设备的监控,并借助于DSC模块把设备状态和参数等以过程变量的形式进行网络发布。设计的控制系统具有结构简单、工作可靠的特点,已经在系统调试中发挥了重要作用。     

Accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor system (ADS) for nuclear energy generation

In this talk we present an overview of accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor systems (ADS), and bring out their attractive features for the elimination of troublesome long-lived components of the spent fuel, as well as for nuclear energy generation utilizing thorium as fuel. In India, there is an interest in the programmes of development of high-energy and high-current accelerators due to the potential of ADS in utilizing the vast resources of thorium in the country for nuclear power generation. The accelerator related activities planned in this direction will be outlined.     

Preliminary design and simulation of a 162.5 MHz high- intensity proton RFQ for an accelerator driven system

A new procedure for the design and simulation of a Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) accelerator has been developed at the Argonne National Laboratory. This procedure is integrated with the beam dynamics design code DESRFQ and the simulation code TRACK, which are based on three-dimensional field calculations and the particle-in-cell mode beam dynamics simulations. This procedure has been applied to the development of a 162.5 MHz CW RFQ which is capable of delivering a 10 mA proton beam for the Accelerator Driven System (ADS) of the CAS. The simulation results show that this RFQ structure is characterized by the stable values of the beam acceleration efficiency for both the zero current beam and space charge dominated beam. For an average beam current of 10 mA, there is no transverse rms emittance growth, the longitudinal rms emittance at the exit of RFQ is low enough and there is no halo formation. The beam accelerated in the RFQ could be accepted easily and smoothly by the following super-conducting linear accelerator.     

短寿命核转轮传送装置

在中国原子能科学研究院的串列式静电加速器上建立了传送短寿命核的转轮装置,可用于鉴别和研究寿命短至几秒的核素．该装置已用于新的缺中子核素９０Ｒｕ的鉴别及其半衰期和衰变γ的测量． A wheel device for transporting short-lived nuclei has been constructed at the HI-13 tandem accelerator of CIAE. The device can be used in the identification and investigation of nuclides with life-times as short as a few seconds. With the aid of this device a new nutron-deficient nuclide 90Ru has been identified. Its half-life and decay γ-rays have been measured.     

用于洁净核能源的ADS-EA方案

加速器驱动系统 (ADS)是一种新型的洁净能源装置 ,它采用加速器提供的强流高能量质子束驱动次临界的核反应堆 ,既有安全可靠和产生核废料少的优点 ,还可以处理传统反应堆留下的核废料 .能量放大器是一个基于回旋加速器组合的 ADS方案 ,由三级回旋加速器组成的加速器系统可以产生流强为12 m A和能量为1 .2 Ge V的质子束 (束流功率1 4.4MW) ,用以驱动1500 MW的核反应堆. Accelerator Driving System (ADS) is a new device for cleaning energy. A high intensity, high power proton beam provided by accelerators is used to drive a sub critical nuclear reactor. It is safe, reliable and can produce less nuclear waste, and also can be used to treat the nuclear waste from the classical reactor. An Energy Amplifier (EA), which is composed of three cyclotrons, is one type of ADS. It will be used to produce 14.4 MW proton beam (12 mA, 1.2 GeV) and to operate a 1 500 MW nuclear reactor.     

Prospects for transmutation of nuclear waste and associated proton-accelerator technology

While a considerable and world-wide growth of the nuclear share in the global energy mix is desirable for many reasons, a major concern or objection is the long-term burden that is constituted by the radiotoxic waste from the spent fuel. The concept of Partitioning & Transmutation, a scientific and technological answer, is therefore of high interest. Its deployment may use dedicated “Transmuter” or “Burner” reactors, using a fast neutron spectrum. For the transmutation of waste with a large content (up to 50%) of (very long-lived) Minor Actinides, a sub-critical reactor, using an external neutron source is a solution of high interest. It is constituted by coupling a proton accelerator, a spallation target and a subcritical core. This promising new technology is named ADS, for accelerator-driven system. The present paper aims at an introduction into the field in order to focus, in its later part, on the development of the required accelerator technology.     

Transmutation: Towards solving problem of spent nuclear fuel

An Accelerator Driven Subcritical System (ADS) is a promising, new concept for transmutation of long-lived isotopes originating from spent nuclear fuel. In the mainstream of research is the proton accelerator-driven ADS, however, on smaller scale an electron accelerator-driven machine could be an alternative. Using international codes we started to investigate the reactor physical aspects of such a device. In our paper we present the results of the first step of the modelling: the target optimization.     

Application of the Nuclear Reaction Analysis Online Technique to Study the Diffusion of Deuterium in Metals

Nuclear reaction analysis online technique has been applied to study the diffusion of deuterium in metals. Investigations ensuring the application of the new method have been performed. These investigations include the development of a device for diffusion annealing of samples in the chamber of an accelerator and an algorithm for taking into account the effect of radiation defects on the diffusion coefficients. Test measurements of the diffusion coefficients of deuterium in nickel in the temperature range from 130 to–60°С have been performed. For negative temperatures, experimental data on the diffusion of a hydrogen isotope in a metal have been obtained for the first time by a direct method and it has been shown that the online nuclear reaction analysis provides reliable data.     

1.2MeV脱硫脱硝电子加速器的设计与模拟

对工业用1.2MeV脱硫脱硝电子加速器进行了结构设计与性能分析，并利用PIC(Particle-In-Cell)模拟方法得到优化后的计算结果. 结果显示，加速器的电子光学性能有所提高，基本达到优化设计的目的.     

Optimization of accelerated charged particle beam for ADS energy production

A comparative analysis and optimization of energy efficiency for proton and ion beams in ADS systems is performed via simulation using a GEANT4 code with account for energy consumption for different accelerator types. It is demonstrated that for light nuclei, beginning from ⁷Li, with energies above 1 GeV/nucleon, ion beams are considerably (several times) more efficient than the 1–3 GeV proton beam. The possibility of achieving energy deposition equivalent to 1 GeV protons in a quasi-infinite uranium target with higher efficiency (and twice as small accelerator size) in the case of acceleration of light ions is substantiated.     

Physics design of a CW high-power proton Linac for accelerator-driven system

Accelerator-driven systems (ADS) have evoked lot of interest the world over because of their capability to incinerate the MA (minor actinides) and LLFP (long-lived fission products) radiotoxic waste and their ability to utilize thorium as an alternative nuclear fuel. One of the main subsystems of ADS is a high energy (∼1 GeV) and high current (∼30 mA) CW proton Linac. The accelerator for ADS should have high efficiency and reliability and very low beam losses to allow hands-on maintenance. With these criteria, the beam dynamics simulations for a 1 GeV, 30 mA proton Linac has been done. The Linac consists of normal-conducting radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ), drift tube linac (DTL) and coupled cavity drift tube Linac (CCDTL) structures that accelerate the beam to about 100 MeV followed by superconducting (SC) elliptical cavities, which accelerate the beam from 100 MeV to 1 GeV. The details of the design are presented in this paper.