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Conference Article: Status report on the ADS research activity in Italy

S. Buono, C. Aragonese, L. Maciocco, V. Moreau, L. Sorrentino

Abstract

The Italian activity on Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS) is divided into two interacting programs based on the C. Rubbia design of an Energy Amplifier (EA). The first is a fundamental R&D program named TRASCO (Italian acronym standing for waste transmutation: “TRAsmutazione SCOrie”) and the second is an industrial program related to system design. The TRASCO program is again divided in two parts. The first part, led by INFN (the Italian national research institute for nuclear physics), is devoted to the development of a 30 mA·1 GeV proton linac accelerator based on Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ), Drift Tube Linac (DTL) and Superconducting Cavities (SC) technologies. The second part is devoted to the subcritical system. In this framework the CHEOPE and LECOR facilities built at ENEA (the Italian national research agency for energy, environment and new technologies) Brasimone site are described. They will be used for testing the basic technology related to Pb-Bi coolant (loading/unloading operations, oxygen control, instrumentation, filtering) and the compatibility of structural materials.

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key words: Fast Neutron Spectrum Systems, Nuclear Technology
Reference:
Advisory Group Meeting on “Design and Performance of Reactor and Sub-critical Blanket Systems with Lead and Lead-Bismuth as Coolant and/or Target Material” , Moscow, Russian Federation, 23-27 October 2000
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
IAEA-TECDOC--1348, pp:151-158