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

1 LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie
2 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
3 LPCC - Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen
4 IPNO - Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay

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

Domaines: Physique des accélérateurs [physics.acc-ph]

Maud Baylac, H. Ait Abderrahim, P. Baeten, A. Billebaud, G. Bergmans, et al.. The GENEPI-3C Accelerator for the GUINEVERE Project. International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Research Applications and Utilization of Accelerators (AccApp '09), May 2009, Vienna, Austria. pp.ADS/ET-1. ⟨in2p3-00382010⟩