The
Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
is organising a third workshop on "Utilisation and Reliability of High
Power Accelerators". The workshop will be held at Santa Fe, New Mexico,
USA on May 12-16 2002. The workshop will be hosted by Los Alamos National
Laboratory (LANL).
R&D activities and construction plans related to high power proton accelerators (HPPAs) are being considered in various countries to promote basic and applied sciences, including accelerator-driven nuclear energy systems (ADS). The performance of such hybrid nuclear systems depends to a large extent on the specification and reliability of the particle accelerator.
The
present meeting is a follow-up to the second workshop on "Utilisation
and Reliability of High Power Accelerators" that was hosted by CEA Cadarache
and was held in Aix-en-Provence, France in 1999. Many of the questions
discussed at that workshop will be further developed at this meeting.
In addition, there will be specific presentations devoted to safety, regulatory
and technological requirements for the commissioning, operation and restart
of hybrid nuclear systems.
A tentative list of topics is given below.
The
workshop will begin with a reception on Sunday evening, May 12, 2002. The
formal programme will begin on the morning of May 13, 2002 and finish during
the morning of May 16. The workshop will be held at the Hotel Loretto,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA where a block of rooms have also been reserved.
Additional information on accommodation can be found on the Hotel Accommodation
Form.
The meeting will consist of plenary sessions with invited papers on the first day and contributed papers given on the mornings of the following two days. The participants will break into working groups to discuss and work through a set of questions on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. Each day will end with a general discussion and on Thursday morning there will be a closeout session.
Topics of contributed papers to include:
SUNDAY |
12-May-02 |
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
REGISTRATION |
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MONDAY |
13-May-02 |
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7:00 am - 8:15 am |
Breakfast and Registration |
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8:15 am - 8:30 am |
Welcome |
K. Pasamehmetoglu |
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INVITED TALKS |
Chair: D. Rusthoi |
8:30 am - 9:00 am |
Background/Perspective |
T. Mukaiyama |
9:00 am - 9:30 am |
European Programs |
Carluec, Abderahim, Mueller |
9:30 am - 10:15 am |
Korean Program/Jeju Meeting |
Won-Seok Park |
10:15 am - 10:30 am |
Break |
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10:30 am - 11:15 am |
U.S. Programs |
F. Goldner/M. Cappiello/P.Finck |
11:15 am - 12:00 noon |
Design of Proton LINACs for Greater Reliability |
T. Wangler |
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm |
Lunch |
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1:30 pm - 2:15 pm |
Reliable Cyclotron Design |
T. Stammbach |
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm |
Target Design Concepts |
G. Bauer |
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm |
Break |
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3:00 pm - 3:45 pm |
Innovative ADS Concepts |
M. Salvatores |
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm |
Target and Window Materials |
S. Maloy |
4;15 pm - 5:30 pm |
OPEN DISCUSSIONS |
Discussion leader: M. Cappiello |
. Design Considerations |
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. Performance Requirements |
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. Reliability |
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TUESDAY |
14-May-02 |
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7:00 am - 8:15 am |
Breakfast |
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8:15 am - 8:30 am |
Announcements |
D. Rusthoi |
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CONTRIBUTED PAPERS |
Chair: R. Sheffield |
8:30 am - 8:55 am |
Reliability Tests of the High Power Proton Source SILHI at CEA/Saclay |
Gobin, Beauvais, Bogard, Ferdinand, Mattei |
8:55 am - 9:20 am |
Operational Experience with a 352-MHz 5-Cell Accelerating Structure for the High Energy Section of the Linac |
Chincarini, Gemme, Parodi, Barni, Bosotti, Pagani, Pierini, Calatroni, Chiaveri, Losito |
9:20 am - 9:45 am |
Beam Reliability and Equipment Downtime Tracking |
Callaway and Ryder |
9:45 am - 10:10 am |
Reliability of induction FFAG for Accelerator Driven Reactor |
H. Takahashi |
10:10 am - 10:30 am |
Break |
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10:30 am - 10:55 am |
R&D Status of Superconducting Proton Linac and the KEK/JAERI High Intensity Proton Linac Project |
Ouchi |
10:55 am - 11:20 am |
The Use of NEG Vacuum Pumps on the LEDA RFQ |
Valvidiez, et al. |
11:20 am - 11:45 am |
Corrosion Measurements on APT Prototypic Materials in the LANSCE High-Power Proton Beam |
Lillard, et al. |
11:45 am - 12:10 am |
Preliminary Measurements from a Thick Pb-Bi Target from Irradiation by 800 MeV Protons |
James, Klann, Morgan, Pitcher, Paciotti, Oostens |
12:10 pm - 1:40 pm |
Lunch |
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1:40 pm - 2:05 pm |
Oxygen Concentration Measurements and Control for Liquid Pb-Bi Eutectic in the LANL DELTA Loop |
Darling, Hang, Li, Ammermann |
2:05 pm - 2:30 pm |
Gas Production Cross-Section Measurements at LANSCE |
Haight |
2:30 pm - 2:55 pm |
Sodium-Cooled Tungsten Target Design |
Chang |
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm |
Lunch |
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3:00 pm - 5:30 pm |
Working Group Meetings |
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. Accelerator |
Chair: P. Colestock/C. Pagani |
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. Target/Window/Materials |
Chair: K. Pasamehmetoglu/G. Laffont |
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. Multiplier |
Chair: E. Pitcher/H. Abderrahim |
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
Working Group Summaries / Joint Discussions |
Discussion Leader: R. Sheffield |
WEDNESDAY |
15-May-02 |
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7:00 am - 8:15 am |
Breakfast |
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8:15 am - 8:30 am |
Announcements |
D. Rusthoi |
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CONTRIBUTED PAPERS |
Chair: P. Finck |
8:30 am - 8:55 am |
Safety Analysis of Na and Pb-Bi Coolants in Response to Beam Instabilities |
Eriksson, Wallenius, Tucek, Gudowski, Cahalan |
8:55 am - 9:20 am |
Active and Passive Safety Control Performance in Subcritical Accelerator-Driven Nuclear Reactors |
Cahalan, Eriksson |
9:20 am - 9:45 am |
Operating Requirements for a Proton Beam Accelerator to Couple with a Subcritical System |
Negrini, Proto |
9:45 am - 10:10 am |
Safe Shutdown of Accelerator Driven Systems |
Boyak, Cappiello, Pasamehmetoglu |
10:10 am - 10:30 am |
Break |
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10:30 am - 10:55 am |
Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation of the Windowless Interface for the TRASCO-ADS Project |
Barni, Sertore, Giannantonio, Bonucci, Turroni, Cinotti |
10:55 am - 11:20 am |
Design and Verification Experiments for the Windowless Spallation Target of the ADS Prototype MYRRHA |
Van Tichelen, Kupschus, Ariën, Abderrahim |
11:20 am - 11:45 am |
Radio Protection Calculations for the TRADE Experiment |
Ferrari, Herrera-Martinez, Kadi, Zanini |
11:45 am - 12:10 am |
Thermal Response of the Multiplier of an Accelerator Driven System to Beam Interruptions |
Dunn |
12:10 pm - 1:40 pm |
Lunch |
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1:40 pm - 2:05 pm |
Design Description of the Target and Materials Testing Station for the Accelerator Driven Test Facility (ADTF) |
Guffee, et al. |
2:05 pm - 2:30 pm |
Lead-Bismuth Spallation Target Design of the Accelerator-Driven Test Facility (ADTF) |
Gohar, et al. |
2:30 pm - 2:55 pm |
Results of the Initial Operations of the LANL DELTA Loop |
Tcharnotskaia, Ammerman, Woloshun |
3:00 pm - 5:30 pm |
Working Group Meetings |
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. Test Facilities |
Chair: P. Finck/M. Salvatores |
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. Control/safety/Shutdown |
Chair: M. Cappiello/Won-Seok Park |
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
Working Group Summaries/Joint Discussions |
Discussion Leader: P. Finck |
THURSDAY |
16-May-02 |
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7:00 am - 8:15 am |
Breakfast |
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8:15 am - 8:30 am |
Announcements |
D. Rusthoi |
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8:30 am - 10:00 am |
Open Discussion |
All Participants /Lead: K. Pasamehmetoglu |
10:00 am - 10:15 am |
Break |
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10:15 am - 12:30 pm |
Discuss report presentation/contents |
AURS/Local Organizing Committee |
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm |
Lunch |
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2:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
International Sub-Group meeting |
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Participants should fill in the participation form by JANUARY 20, 2002.
Participants planning to present a paper should send the title and an abstract of maximum 300 words using the Abstract Submission Form before FEBRUARY 1, 2002. Participants will be informed by e-mail if their paper has been accepted for presentation.
Final versions of accepted papers must be sent in electronic form using
the Final Paper Submission
Form attaching a Word document by MAY 10, 2002
.
It is planned to allocate 35 minutes for the presentation of each invited
paper and about 20 minutes for each contributed paper presentation.
All correspondence with regard to the meeting should be addressed to the chair of the workshop:
Dr.
Richard Sheffield
Los
Alamos National Laboratory
Mail
Stop H816
Los
Alamos, NM 87545
Email: rsheffield@lanl.gov
January 20, 2002 | Deadline for Participation Form |
February 1, 2002 | Submission of abstract |
March 7, 2002 | Acceptance of contributed papers |
April 11, 2002 | Hotel Registration Deadline |
May 10, 2002 | Deadline for Electronic version of accepted papers |
May 12, 2002 | Start of the meeting |
There
is no conference fee. The organisers will invite all participants to a
reception on the evening of the first day. A continental breakfast will
be provided in the conference meeting room Monday through Thursday from
7:00 to 8:00 a.m. Lunch and breaks, Monday through Wednesday, will also
be provided.
The
working language will be English.
A
draft copy of the papers will be provided to the participants on a CD-ROM
at the beginning of the workshop. All papers will be included in the proceedings,
which will be published by the NEA shortly after the meeting. Please note
that papers not received by May 10 risk being omitted from the proceedings.
The participants will be accommodated in the Hotel Loretto, in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hotel expenses have to be paid directly to the hotel. We have reserved a block of 80 rooms at this hotel for your convenience. Hotel reservations must by made no later than NOON on Thursday, April 11, 2002 to assure availability.
A
programme for accompanying persons can be made available.
Chairperson: Gregory Van Tuyle, LANL
J.
M. Lagniel, CEA Saclay, France
H.
Ait-Abderrahim, SCK/CEN, Mol, Belgium
G.
S. Bauer, PSI, Switzerland
A.
Mueller, CNRS Orsay, France
E.
Gonzalez, CIEMAT, Spain
C.
Pagani, INFN, Italy
Michael
Cappiello LANL, USA
Marcus
Eriksson, R.I. T., Sweden
Guy
Laffont, CEA/Cadarache, France
Kemal
Pasamehmetoglu, LANL, USA
Eric
Pitcher, LANL, USA
Rusi
P. Taleyarkhan, ORNL, USA
Byong-Ho
Choi, KAERI, Korea
Thomas
Wangler, LANL, USA
Peter
Sigg, Paul Scherrer Institute,
Richard
Sheffield, LANL, USA
George
Lawrence, LANL, USA
Richard
Sheffield, Chair
Greg
Van Tuyle
Kemal
Pasamehmetoglu
Eric
Pitcher
David
Schneider
Mike
Cappiello
George
Lawrence
Tom
Wangler
Pat
Colestock
Vernon
Smith
Dominic
Chan
Linda
Hill
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