Nuclear Knowledge Management

Myrrha-project

external URL: http://www.sckcen.be/myrrha/home.php

MYRRHA is an Accelerator Driven System (ADS) under development at Mol in Belgium. It is aiming to serve as a basis for the European experimental ADS to provide protons and neutrons for various R&D applications. It consists of a proton accelerator delivering a 350 MeV * 5 mA proton beam to a liquid Pb-Bi spallation target that in turn couples to a Pb-Bi cooled, subcritical fast core. The project started in 1997. After a conceptual period of two years, a pre-design phase has been launched and is to be completed by 2004. After a detailed engineering design phase and construction of the components, MYRRHA will be put in service around 2012.

URL: http://www.sckcen.be/myrrha/home.php
language: English
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
country: Belgium
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site
related sites: Belgian Nuclear Research Centre in Mol

subject category: research institutes and laboratories | nuclear research institutes
INIS/ETDE category: specific nuclear reactors and associated plants | particle accelerators
keywords: accelerator driven systems | transmutation