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The MEGAPIE-TEST project: Supporting research and lessons learned in first-of-a-kind spallation target technology

  • 1. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, P.O. Box 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe (Germany)
  • 2. Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI (Switzerland)
  • 3. SUBATECH Laboratory, CNRS/IN2P3-EMN-University, F-44307 Nantes (France)
  • 4. Commissariat a l'energie atomique, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex (France)
  • 5. Ente per le nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente, Localita Brasimone, 40032 Camugnano, Bologna (Italy)
  • 6. Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie/Centre d'Etude de l'Energie Nucleaire, Boeretang 200, 2400 Mol (Belgium)

Description

The megawatt pilot experiment (MEGAPIE) has been launched by six European institutions (PSI, FZK, CEA, SCK-CEN, ENEA and CNRS), JAEA (Japan), DOE (US) and KAERI (Korea) with the aim to carry out an experiment, in the SINQ target location at PSI (Switzerland), to demonstrate the safe operation of a liquid metal (lead-bismuth eutectic, LBE) spallation target hit by a ∼1 MW proton beam. The European Commission has joined the MEGAPIE project through the 5-year (2001-2006) project named MEGAPIE-TEST. This project has been formally concluded with an International Workshop, where the results and the lessons learned during the project have been summarised. This work presents a review of the outcome of that Workshop

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2007.11.006

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nucengdes.2007.11.006;
PII
S0029-5493(07)00567-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Engineering and Design
Journal Volume
238
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 1471-1495
ISSN
0029-5493
CODEN
NEDEAU

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Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.