Conference Papers Year : 2008

The GUINEVERE project at the VENUS facility

T. Aoust
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G. Ban
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M. Kerveno
J.L. Lecouey
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Abstract

The GUINEVERE project is an international project in the framework of IP-EUROTRANS, the FP6 program which aims at addressing the main issues for ADS development in the framework of partitioning and transmutation for nuclear waste volume and radiotoxicity reduction. The GUINEVERE project is carried out in the context of domain 2 of IP-EUROTRANS, ECATS, devoted to specific experiments for the coupling of an accelerator, a target and a subcritical core. These experiments should provide an answer to the questions of online reactivity monitoring, sub-criticality determination and operational procedures (loading, start-up, shutdown, …) in an ADS by 2009-2010. The project has the objective to couple a fast lead core, within the VENUS building operated by the SCK•CEN, with a neutron generator able to work in three different modes: pulsed, continuous and continuous with beam interruptions at the millisecond scale. In order to achieve this goal, the VENUS facility has to be adapted and a modified GENEPI-3C accelerator has to be designed and constructed. The paper describes the main modifications to the reactor core and facility and to the accelerator, which will be executed during the years 2008 and 2009, and the experimental programme which will start in 2009.
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in2p3-00305892 , version 1 (25-07-2008)

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P. Baeten, H. Aït Abderrahim, T. Aoust, G. Bergmans, J. Heyse, et al.. The GUINEVERE project at the VENUS facility. International Conference on the Physics of Reactors - PHYSOR 2008, Sep 2008, Interlaken, Switzerland. pp.14-19. ⟨in2p3-00305892⟩
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