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The results of discussions about a research ADS stand at the Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) with a thermal power of up to 5 MW for nuclear transmutation investigations are summarized in this paper. The basic approaches to the design process are stated. The physical and design features of the research ADS stand fit comfortably in the existing infrastructure of the experimental area of the INR linear accelerator (linac). Among other aspects, the physical and technical safety, the horizontal input of the beam, additional barriers for safety, which exclude loss of coolant, are discussed. Features of the tungsten and uranium targets providing the maximal yield of neutrons and rather high lifetimes owing to the distributed thermal load on the beam window are described. Assembly of the stand featuring modules with a potential high degree of prefabrication (modularity) is proposed. Possible structures and geometries of blankets are discussed. Results of the initial design studies are given.
S.F. Sidorkin presented this paper at the Thorium Energy Conference 2013 (ThEC13)
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The authors express their gratitude to the staff of the Kurchatov Institute, the Bochvar Institute on Inorganic Materials, the Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering, and the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE) for useful discussions of the basic provisions of this article. This work was supported by the Research Program “Physics of Fundamental Particles, Atomic Nucleus and Nuclear Technology” of the Physical Sciences Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The authors also express their gratitude to CERN staff Jean-Pierre Revol and Karel Samec for useful discussions and help in the preparation of this article.
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Sidorkin, S.F., Rogov, A.D., Ponomarev, L.I., Koptelov, E.A. (2016). Proposal of the ADS Research Stand Based on the Linac of the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In: Revol, JP., Bourquin, M., Kadi, Y., Lillestol, E., de Mestral, JC., Samec, K. (eds) Thorium Energy for the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26542-1_46
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