The GENEPI-3C Accelerator for the GUINEVERE Project
Maud Baylac
(1)
,
H. Ait Abderrahim
,
P. Baeten
,
A. Billebaud
(1)
,
G. Bergmans
,
P. Boge
(1)
,
D. Bondoux
(1)
,
J. Bouvier
(1)
,
T. Cabanel
(1)
,
Y. Carcagno
(1)
,
G. Dargaud
(1)
,
J.M. de Conto
(1)
,
G. Gaudiot
(2)
,
J.M. Gautier
(3)
,
Y. Gomez Martinez
(1)
,
G. Granget
,
G. Heitz
(2)
,
M. Heusch
(1)
,
B. Laune
(4)
,
D. Marchand
(1)
,
F. Mellier
,
Y. Merrer
(3)
,
R. Micoud
(1)
,
E. Perbet
(1)
,
M. Planet
,
P. Poussot
(2)
,
D. Reynet
(4)
,
C. Ruescas
(2)
,
D. Tourrès
(1)
,
F. Vermeersch
,
G. Vittiglio
Maud Baylac
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H. Ait Abderrahim
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P. Baeten
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A. Billebaud
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G. Bergmans
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J.M. de Conto
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Y. Gomez Martinez
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- IdHAL : yolanda-gomez-martinez
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G. Granget
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D. Marchand
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F. Mellier
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M. Planet
- Fonction : Auteur
F. Vermeersch
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G. Vittiglio
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Résumé
GUINEVERE, Generator-of-Uninterrupted-Intense-NEutrons-at-the-lead-VEnus-REactor, is a project of the Domain 2 of the FP6 EUROTRANS Integrated Project devoted to Accelerator Driven System (ADS) feasibility studies. Domain 2, ECATS, is related to specific Experiments for Coupling an Accelerator, a Target and a Subcritical core. GUINEVERE will investigate on-line reactivity monitoring, sub-criticality determination and operational procedures in an ADS. The project consists in coupling a modified VENUS facility at the SCK-CEN site in Mol (Belgium) to an upgraded GENEPI neutron source. SCK-CEN is transforming the water moderated VENUS reactor into a fast lead core facility, the fuel and lead rodlets being provided by CEA. The GEnerator-of-NEutrons-Pulsed-and-Intense is an electrostatic accelerator generating 14 MeV neutrons by bombarding a high intensity deuteron beam on a tritium target located in the reactor core. CNRS is designing and building a new accelerator, GENEPI-3C, to meet the new requirements of the experimental program: it will be capable of delivering alternatively 1 μs long deuteron pulses with adjustable repetition rate, as well as continuous beam with programmable interruptions. This paper will describe the design and commissioning of the GENEPI accelerator