About demonstration benchmark of sub-critical accelerator driven system and investigations in the field of nuclear transmutation

The possibility of developing the demonstration plant based on the linear proton accelerator and the Moscow meson factory for fulfillment of researches in the fields of sub-critical accelerator driven technology, nuclear transmutation and investigations of construction materials, is studied. The demonstration benchmark must be realized in the module variant. It would consist of the next main units: the target module, the blanket module, the cassette with fuel elements, the section reflector, the ion guide and the external vessel. The sketch scheme of the sub-critical accelerator driven system is given which consists of the uranium-graphite blanket (3 MW), the target from W or Pb-Bi, the ring driver of fuel cassettes and the graphite reflector. The calculated input current of the proton beam would be 150-180 μA