High power electron accelerator for environmental applications

At present, the world market of electron accelerator is saturated with the reliable and efficient plants of 0.3-3 MeV energy range and the power of the beam extracted into air up to 150 kW. However, such accelerators cannot satisfy the demand of new energy-intensive technologies (mainly referred to as ecological), which require accelerators with the power of an electron beam ranging from a few hundreds of kilowatts to tens of megawatts. In its turn, the megawatt power complexes require modules with a minimum unit power of hundreds of kilowatts. (author)