Nuclear Energy Handbook

Links to ADS related sites

Featured web site: IAEA's project on Technology Advances in Fast Reactors and Accelerator Driven Systems for Actinide and Long-lived Fission Product Transmutation

1  European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) goto TOP
 #44: http://user.web.cern.ch/user/Welcome.asp
 country: France | Switzerland
 language: English
 
2  Uranium Information Centre (UIC - Australia) goto TOP
 #170: http://www.uic.com.au/
 The Uranium Information Centre was set up in 1978. Its purpose is to increase Australian public understanding of uranium mining and nuclear electricity generation.
 country: Australia
 language: English
 
3  Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH goto TOP
 #266: http://www.fzk.de/
 country: Germany
 language: English | French | German
 
4  Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (Ciemat) goto TOP
 #280: http://www.ciemat.es/portal.do
 Ciemat is a Public Organisation for Research and Technological Development supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, through the Estate Secretariat of Scientific Policy and has as main objectives: to find solutions to improve the use of resources and energy generation systems, to develop alternative energy sources and to solve the problems of the Spanish companies regarding energy and its effects on the environment.
 country: Spain
 language: Spanish | English
 
5  Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) goto TOP
 #281: http://www.psi.ch/
 The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is a multi-disciplinary research centre for natural sciences and technology. In national and international collaboration with universities, other research institutes and industry, PSI is active in solid state physics, materials sciences, elementary particle physics, life sciences, nuclear and non-nuclear energy research, and energy-related ecology.
 country: Switzerland
 language: English
 
6  Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) goto TOP
 #293: http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/
 Los Alamos lab, located with the town of Los Alamos approximately 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, occupies 43 square miles of land in Northern New Mexico. Owned by the Department of Energy, Los Alamos has been managed by the University of California since 1943, when the Laboratory was born as part of the Manhattan Project to create the first atomic weapons during World War II.
 country: USA
 language: English
 
7  Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3) goto TOP
 #321: http://www.in2p3.fr/
 country: France
 language: French
 
8  National Institute for Research in Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics (INFN) goto TOP
 #384: http://www.infn.it/
 country: Italy
 language: English | Italian
 
9  Royal Institute of Technology, STOCKHOLM (KTH) goto TOP
 #444: http://www.kth.se/
 country: Sweden
 language: Swedish | English
 
10  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) goto TOP
 #463: http://www.pnl.gov/
 PNNL performs basic and applied research to deliver energy, environmental, and national security for the USA.
 country: USA
 language: English
 
11  Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) goto TOP
 #766: http://www.kaeri.re.kr/
 country: Korea, Republic of
 language: Korean | English
 
12  Centre for new Technologies, Energy and Environment (ENEA) goto TOP
 #868: http://www.enea.it/
 country: Italy
 language: Italian
 
13  Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley goto TOP
 #940: http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/
 country: USA
 language: English
 
14  Fission driven by Accelerator and Isotope Transmutation (FACET) goto TOP
 #1094: http://petra2.ciemat.es/interno/eng/proyectos/pdfnfacet.html
 The aim of the project is the study of the accelerator driven systems, ADS, with close attention paid to their applications in nuclear waste transmutation as well as energy production. The program has two main research lines. The first one is dedicated to the development of concepts, designs, operation models and computer simulation tools characteristic of this type of systems. The second line includes the participation on the design, construction and data analysis of the most advanced experiments in this field of research.
 country: Spain
 language: English | Spanish
 
15  Materials Behaviour in Transmutation Systems goto TOP
 #1214: http://petra2.ciemat.es/interno/eng/proyectos/pdfntransmutar.html
 The general objective of the project is to gain insight into the behaviour of the martensitic stainless steels, 9-12%Cr, considered as candidates for the construction of a spallation target for an accelerator-driven system (ADS) and/or as a structural material, under the operating conditions estimated in the conceptual design of this type of sub-critical reactors.

On the one hand, the project aims at developing the technology required for the use of lead-bismuth as a coolant for a hybrid system, especially with regard to its compatibility with the structural materials. On the other hand, the project contemplates the study of the effect of irradiation on materials subjected to the spectrum expected for a spallation target, in order to support the design of a hybrid system and collaborate in drawing up a suitable database for prediction of system component integrity at the end of their lifetime.

 country: Spain
 language: English | Spanish
 
16  Nuclear and Reactor Physics at KTH goto TOP
 #1536: http://clio.neutron.kth.se/
 Research on accelerator driven systems (ADS), Monte Carlo based reactor core calculation and safety analysis of transmutation, performed by this department at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).
 country: Sweden
 language: English
 
17  Myrrha-project goto TOP
 #1655: 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.
 country: Belgium
 language: English
 
18  The Hybrid Reactor Group goto TOP
 #1656: http://lpsc.in2p3.fr/gpr/gpr.html
 The ISN study group on Hybrid Reactors belongs to both the University Joseph Fourier and to the IN2P3/CNRS. It is, thus, essentially, academic.
 country: France
 language: English
 
19  Laboratory for Subatomic Physics and Cosmology - Grenoble (CNRS/IN2P3 - UJF - INPG) goto TOP
 #1657: http://lpsc.in2p3.fr/
 country: France
 language: French | English
 
20  Research group for molten salt reactor concept (GEDEON) goto TOP
 #1658: http://www.gedeon.prd.fr/
 country: France
 language: French
 
21  Karlsruhe Lead Laboratiry (KALLA) goto TOP
 #1659: http://www.kalla.fzk.de/
 Presently, the Technical Working Group chaired by Carlo Rubbia and jointly set up by several European governments, is harmonizing the ongoing European activities on ADS. Within the 5th European Framework Programme the European Union is funding 10 projects on partitioning and transmutation. The objectives of these projects are to cover basic aspects and data needed for assessing the impact of ADS technology on transmutation and for designing technical options for a reference as-soon-as-possible demonstration facility (ASAP-DEMO).
 country: Germany
 language: English | French | German
 
22  Accelerator Driven Systems goto TOP
 #1660: http://itumagill.fzk.de/ADS/
 This is a website dedicated to all aspects of accelerator driven systems ranging from nuclear power generation to waste incineration. Publications on ADS and Transmutation.
 country: Germany
 language: English | French | German
 
23  Unità di Progetto ADS (ENEA) goto TOP
 #1661: http://www.arcoveggio.enea.it/ads
 country: Italy
 language: Italian
 
24  Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4) goto TOP
 #1662: http://www.crs4.it/
 CRS4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia) is an interdisciplinary applied research center developing advanced simulation techniques and applying them, by means of High Performance Computing, to the solution of large scale computational problems, and conducting research, development and innovative applications in the field of the Information and Communications Technology.
 country: Italy
 language: English
 
25  The Energy Amplifier Project (CSR4) goto TOP
 #1663: http://www.crs4.it/Areas/ea/
 In 1993 the Director General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and 1984 Physics Nobel Laureate C. Rubbia presented to his colleagues of CERN a simple concept for clean energy production and elimination of nuclear waste. Such a revolutionary machine, which he called the Energy Amplifier (EA), is the result of a "cross-fertilization" between the technology of modern accelerators and that of nuclear power production. In contrast to an ordinary reactor, the EA produces energy (in the form of heat) as a result of nuclear cascades, rather than of a self-sustained chain reaction. Nuclear cascades are initiated by relativistic protons produced by a small, but efficient, accelerator and the risks of a Chernobyl-type accident are intrinsically eliminated. The use of an external source of neutrons allows the exploitation of the Thorium cycle, a mere dream for the nuclear engineers in the sixties, because it opens the way to an unlimited source of energy and virtually eliminates the production of Actinides, the most offending contribution to nuclear waste. In past years, such ideas have been developed using sophisticated computer simulations and CFD calculations and are now a leading European project in the field of future energy production and nuclear radioactive waste transmutation.
 country: Italy
 language: English
 
26  Persistent Quest - Research Activities (JAERI) goto TOP
 #1665: http://jolisfukyu.tokai-sc.jaea.go.jp/fukyu/tayu/ACT05E/Frame0000.htm
 Persistent Quest is published annually to introduce the most recent accomplishments of JAERI (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute) on scientific and technical research to the general public. Its contents are focused on research topics which made outstanding progress in the year concerned.
 country: Japan
 language: Japanese | English
 
27  Accelerator Driven System Research in KAERI goto TOP
 #1667: http://itumagill.fzk.de/ADS/korea/korea.html
 country: Korea, Republic of
 language: English
 
28  Laboratorio del Amplificador de Energia (LAESA) goto TOP
 #1670: http://www.laesa.com/
 country: Spain
 language: Spanish
 
29  Accelerator Transmutation of Waste (LANL) goto TOP
 #1676: http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/pa/science21/ATW.html
 Los Alamos, in collaboration with eight other DOE laboratories, recently developed a five-year "road map" (reference number DOE/RW-0519) for ATW research and development, which includes examining all available technology development options; developing a prototype test facility; and demonstrating key aspects of the technologies. Los Alamos plans to conduct some of those demonstrations. Researchers are working on designs that would lower the cost of such a system, which is one of the major hurdles that must be overcome.
 country: USA
 language: English
 
30  Spallation Neutron Source (U.S. DOE) goto TOP
 #1687: http://www.sns.gov/
 The SNS project is a partnership involving six DOE national laboratories (Argonne, Brookhaven, Jefferson, Lawrence Berkeley, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge) in the design and construction of a spallation source for neutron-scattering R&D. The baseline calls for an accelerator system consisting of an ion source, full-energy linear accelerator (linac), and an accumulator ring that combine to produce short, powerful pulses of protons. These proton pulses impinge onto a mercury target to produce neutrons through the spallation nuclear reaction process. The SNS will deliver two mega watt (2 MW) of beam power onto the target, and it has been designed with the flexibility to provide additional scientific output in the future. This approach is intended to provide a facility that will meet the neutron intensity needs of the science community well into the next century.
 country: USA
 language: English
 
31  Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (Argonne National Laboratory) goto TOP
 #1688: http://www.pns.anl.gov/
 The Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS) at Argonne National Laboratory is a national facility for neutron scattering research. IPNS is operated by the University of Chicago for the United States Department of Energy. It is available to outside users through the submission of research proposals.
 country: USA
 language: English
 
32  Technology Advances in Fast Reactors and Accelerator Driven Systems goto TOP
 #1946: http://www.iaea.org/inisnkm/nkm/aws/fnss/
 This is the web site of IAEA's project on: Technology Advances in Fast Reactors and Accelerator Driven Systems for Actinide and Long-lived Fission Product Transmutation.
 country: International Atomic Energy Agency | Austria
 language: English
 
33  NSC Project: Partitioning and Transmutation (NEA/OECD) goto TOP
 #2121: http://www.nea.fr/html/science/projects/pandt.html
 country: Nuclear Energy Agency | France
 language: English
 
34  Pansophy (Jefferson Lab) goto TOP
 #2297: http://www.jlab.org/div_dept/admin/publications/abstracts/01/PAC/abs43.html
 country: USA
 language: English
 
35  Nucler Systems for Utilization and Transmutation of Actinides and Long Lived Fission Products goto TOP
 #2516: http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NE/NENP/NPTDS/Projects/ads.html
 country: International Atomic Energy Agency | Austria
 language: English
 
36  Databases of IAEA's Nuclear Energy Department goto TOP
 #2585: http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NE/ne_databases.html
 The Department of Nuclear Energy maintains and updates a number of databases. Most of them are publicly available. Below is the list of databases and links to web pages of the databases if they have one. The list is categorized in working areas.
 country: International Atomic Energy Agency | Austria
 language: English
 
37  JAERI-KEK Joint Facility for High Intensity Proton Accelerators (J-PARC Project) goto TOP
 #2605: http://jkj.tokai.jaeri.go.jp/
 The JAERI-KEK Joint Facility for High Intensity Proton Accelerators, called the J-PARC Project, is a accelerator project in Japan with which to produce MW-class high power proton beams at both 3 GeV and 50 GeV, where J-PARC stands for Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex. Construction budget started on April 1, 2001, with an anticipated first beam in the summer of 2007. Transmutation Experimental Facility (TEF) composed of two experimental facilities, Transmutation Physics Experimental Facility (TEF-P) and ADS Target Test Facility (TEF-T), will be constructed. TEF-P equips a critical assembly to investigate physical and dynamic properties of the accelerator-driven system by using low power (10W) proton beam. Uranium, Plutonium and minor actinide fuels are planned to be loaded into the assembly. TEF-T is a facility to examine the existence of ADS (Accelerator-driven System) by engineering viewpoint. Liquid lead-bismuth spallation target is installed to the TEF-T and is irradiated by 600MeV-200kW proton beam.
 country: Japan
 language: English | Japanese
 
38  UIC Briefing Papers (Uranium Information Centre) goto TOP
 #2818: http://www.uic.com.au/nip.htm
 The Uranium Information Centre was set up in 1978. Its purpose is to increase Australian public understanding of uranium mining and nuclear electricity generation. The Centre is funded by companies involved in uranium exploration, mining and export in Australia.
 country: Australia
 language: English
 
39  Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS) Data Base goto TOP
 #2822: http://www-adsdb.iaea.org/index.cfm
 In responding to expressed needs of some of its Member States, the IAEA has created a data base on Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS) and Partitioning and Transmutation (P&T) related R&D issues. Originally conceived as a DataBase on experimental facilities that could be used for ADS and P&T related R&D, it has evolved to include all important aspects of the R&D in this area. The R&D community working in this field is encouraged to contribute to the data base. User’s comments and suggestions are welcome.
 country: International Atomic Energy Agency | Austria
 language: English
 
40  Thematic Network on Advanced Options for Partitioning and Transmutation (ADOPT) goto TOP
 #2830: http://www3.sckcen.be/adopt/
 ADOPT Network is intended to coordinate the R&D activities sponsored by FP5 and the national activities in the fields of ADS development and Partitioning and transmutation. In Europe there is a strong interest to explore the potential scientific, technical and industrial possibilities of P&T. Integrating the total European efforts as efficiently as possible would be very beneficial and would speed up the development and put the European R&D at lead in this field. The major specific objective of ADOPT is to give input to future research proposals and guidelines for further R&D orientation.
 country: Belgium | Belgium
 language: English | English
 
41  Trasmutazione Scorie (TRASCO) goto TOP
 #2831: 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.
 country: Italy | Italy
 language: English | Italian