| Title |
Toward a Virtual Accelerator Control System for the MYRRHA Linac |
| Authors |
- J.-P. Carneiro
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
- J.-L. Biarrotte
IPN, Orsay, France
- F. Bouly
LPSC, Grenoble Cedex, France
- L. Medeiros Romão, R. Salemme, D. Vandeplasschepresenter
SCK•CEN, Mol, Belgium
- D. Uriot
CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
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| Abstract |
The MYRRHA project currently under development at Mol, Belgium, is an Accelerator Driven System expected to be operational in 2023 with the primary purpose to study the feasibility of efficiently transmuting nuclear waste products into isotopes with much shorter lifetimes. The reactor, which is expected to have a thermal power of ~70 MW, may be operated in subcritical mode when fed by spallation neutrons obtained from a 600 MeV superconducting proton linac hitting a Liquid Pb-Bi eutectic (LBE) target with an average current of 4 mA. The challenging aspect of the MYRRHA linac resides in its very high availability (close to 100%) with a Mean Time Between Failure expected to be higher than 250 hours. This paper presents the strategic approach taken during the design of the linac and its foreseen operation to fulfill this stringent requirement. In particular we will describe the concept of a beam dynamics based control system also called Virtual Accelerator which will be mandatory for the operation of such linac.
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| Conference |
IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany |
| Series |
International Particle Accelerator Conference (5th) |
| Proceedings |
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| Session |
Poster Session, Ronaldo Area |
| Date |
19-Jun-14 16:00–18:00 |
| Main Classification |
06 Instrumentation, Controls, Feedback & Operational Aspects |
| Sub Classification |
T04 Accelerator/Storage Ring Control Systems |
| Keywords |
linac, controls, operation, lattice, cryomodule |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editors |
Christine Petit-Jean-Genaz (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland); Gianluigi Arduini (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland); Peter Michel (HZDR, Dresden, Germany); Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany) |
| ISBN |
978-3-95450-132-8 |
| Published |
July 2014 |
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