Nuclear Energy Handbook

TRASCO: Trasmutazione Scorie

external URL: http://trasco.lnl.infn.it/

A joint ENEA-INFN Research Project for the design of an Accelerator Driven System (ADS) for Nuclear Waste Transmutation. The program aims to study the physics and to develop the technologies needed to design an Accelerator Driven System (ADS) for nuclear waste transmutation and has been prepared with close reference to Carlo Rubbia’s proposal. The program consists of two main parts, regarding, respectively, the accelerator and the sub-critical system. Although ENEA and INFN will be jointly responsible for the whole program, INFN will essentially manage the first part, and ENEA the second part. The proposed project will concern all the main subsystems of an ADS (accelerator, window/target, sub-critical reactor). However, due to the limited available financial resources, it has been decided to concentrate efforts on some significant and qualified activities, in view of the goal of participation in an international project for the construction of an ADS prototype, like the Energy Amplifier for waste transmutation.
URL: http://trasco.lnl.infn.it/
language: English | Italian
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation | university, laboratory or research organisation
country: Italy | Italy
access: open to the general public | open to the general public
type of data: textual information | textual information
type of site: non-commercial site | non-commercial site
related sites: National Agency for New Technology, Energy and Environment | National Institute for Nuclear Physics
subject category: research institutes and laboratories | nuclear research institutes
INIS/ETDE category: nuclear fuel cycle and fuel materials | radioactive waste management | nuclear physics including radiation physics | general studies of nuclear reactors | engineering
keywords: transmutation | accelerator driven systems