User:Jla2/Accelerator-Driven System

A Accelerator Driven System is nuclear fission system that's enabled by a particle accelerator, instead a of a continuous nuclear chain reaction. It's a type of a subcritical reactor, as it's remains subcritical all the time, the reaction is only made possible by a continuous supply of neutrons, produced with the help of a particle accelerator.

A 10 MW proton beam might thus produce 1500 MW of heat (and thus 600 MWe of electricity, some 30 MWe of which drives the accelerator). Depending on the Spallation target material a different number of neutrons are produced. For lead an impact would produce 30 neutrons per proton while uranium produces 50 neutrons. (pag 17 Kadi2001)


 * WNA Information Paper # 35: Accelerator-driven Nuclear Energy
 * ADNA GEM STAR - (Adobe Acrobat *.PDF document)
 * More information on the ADNA GEM STAR- (Adobe Acrobat *.PDF document)
 * Design of an Accelerator-Driven System for the Destruction of Nuclear Waste 7 September 2001 - (Adobe Acrobat *.PDF document)
 * A Roadmap for Developing Accelerator Transmutation of Waste (ATW) Technology - DOE-October 1999- (Adobe Acrobat *.PDF document)


 * ACCELERATOR BASED CONTINUOUS NEUTRON SOURCE (ACNS) April 2003.- (Adobe Acrobat *.PDF document)