Nuclear Energy Handbook
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. |
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| URL: | http://www.sckcen.be/myrrha/home.php
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| language: | English
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| originator: | university, laboratory or research organisation
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| country: | Belgium
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| access: | open to the general public
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| type of data: | textual information
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| type of site: | non-commercial site
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| related sites: | Belgian Nuclear Research Centre in Mol
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| subject category: | research institutes and laboratories
| nuclear research institutes
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| INIS/ETDE category: | specific nuclear reactors and associated plants
| particle accelerators
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| keywords: | accelerator driven systems
| transmutation
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