The designs of an experimental ADS facility (XT-ADS) and of a European Industrial Transmutation Demonstrator (EFIT)

Luigi Mansani, Marco Reale, Carlo Artioli, Didier De Bruyn, Peter Baeten

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    Abstract

    Within the EURATOM Sixth Framework Program, the EUROTRANS integrated project is expected to provide a significant contribution to the demonstration of the industrial transmutation through the Accelerator Driven System route. The goal will be reached through the realization of a detailed design for an experimental facility of 50 to 100 MWth power which shows the technical feasibility of an ADS and the development of a conceptual design of a generic demonstrator (EFIT- European Facility for Industrial Transmutation) to be realized in the long term. SCK•CEN has offered and the EUROTRANS partners have accepted to use the MYRRHA design as a starting basis for the XT-ADS design. This allowed optimizing an existing design towards the needs of XT-ADS within the limits of safety requirements. The EFIT is designed on the basis of the experience acquired in the previous PDS-XADS project and it is fuelled with Minor Actinides (U-free fuel). In EFIT the use of pure lead instead of LBE as the primary coolant, the higher power density and primary temperatures are the features for compactness and efficient energy generation. In the present paper, the general configurations of EFIT and XT-ADS primary system as well as their cores are presented.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationTechnology & Components of Accelerator-driven Systems
    Place of PublicationParis, France
    Pages321-334
    Volume1
    StatePublished - Jul 2011
    EventOECD Nuclear Energy Agency International Workshop on Technology & Components of Accelerator Driven Systems (TCADS) - Karlsruhe
    Duration: 15 Mar 201017 Mar 2010

    Conference

    ConferenceOECD Nuclear Energy Agency International Workshop on Technology & Components of Accelerator Driven Systems (TCADS)
    Country/TerritoryGermany
    CityKarlsruhe
    Period2010-03-152010-03-17

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