MAX
"MYRRHA Accelerator eXperiment, research and development programme"
| Coordinatore | CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
Organization address
address: Rue Michel -Ange 3 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | France [FR] |
| Totale costo | 4˙950˙856 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙926˙199 € |
| Programma | FP7-EURATOM-FISSION
EURATOM: Nuclear fission and radiation protection |
| Code Call | FP7-Fission-2010 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-FP |
| Anno di inizio | 2011 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2011-02-01 - 2014-07-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
Organization address
address: Rue Michel -Ange 3 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | coordinator | 769˙281.06 |
| 2 |
JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN
Organization address
address: GRUNEBURGPLATZ 1 contact info |
DE (FRANKFURT AM MAIN) | participant | 760˙800.00 |
| 3 |
EMPRESARIOS AGRUPADOS INTERNACIONA L SA
Organization address
address: CALLE MAGALLANES 3 contact info |
ES (MADRID) | participant | 344˙271.00 |
| 4 |
STUDIECENTRUM VOOR KERNENERGIE
Organization address
address: Herrmann Debrouxlaan 40 contact info |
BE (Brussel) | participant | 341˙613.00 |
| 5 |
ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE
Organization address
address: Via Enrico Fermi 40 contact info |
IT (FRASCATI) | participant | 204˙400.00 |
| 6 |
ADAPTIVE PREDICTIVE EXPERT CONTROL ADEX SL
Organization address
address: Plaza Valle de la Jarosa 77 contact info |
ES (MADRID) | participant | 156˙488.00 |
| 7 |
Accelerators and Cryogenic Systems
Organization address
address: rue de Paris 86 contact info |
FR (Orsay) | participant | 110˙625.00 |
| 8 |
THALES ELECTRON DEVICES SA
Organization address
address: RUE MARCEL DASSAULT 2 contact info |
FR (VELIZY VILLACOUBLAY) | participant | 97˙425.00 |
| 9 |
COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
Organization address
address: RUE LEBLANC 25 contact info |
FR (PARIS 15) | participant | 59˙296.00 |
| 10 |
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Organization address
address: Oude Markt 13 contact info |
BE (LEUVEN) | participant | 53˙600.00 |
| 11 |
UNIVERSIDADE CATOLICA PORTUGUESA
Organization address
address: Rua Palma de Cima contact info |
PT (Lisboa) | participant | 28˙400.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The present FP-7 proposal MAX is subsequent to the recommendations of the Strategic Research Agenda of SNETP for ADS development in Europe. Its aim is to pursue the R&D required for a high power proton accelerator as specified by the MYRRHA project. There is especially a strong focus on all the aspects that pertain to the reliability and availability of this accelerator.
This R&D effort builds on the large body of results and the clear conclusions that have been obtained during the consecutive FP5 project PDS-XADS and FP6 project EUROTRANS. MAX will further investigate the key issues of redundancy and fault-tolerance by real-world experience in making maximum use of already existing or to-be-built dedicated prototypes, both on the injector side and on the main superconducting linac side.
At the end of the MAX project, it will be possible to generate an updated consolidated reference layout of the accelerator for MYRRHA with sufficient detail and adequate level of confidence in order to initiate its engineering design and subsequent construction phase.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Continuing to fulfil the EU's fundamental energy needs requires technological advancement through scientific research. In this context, European researchers are designing a new high-power particle accelerator for supporting sustainable nuclear fission technologies in Europe.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
Europe must find sustainable ways of managing high-level, long-lived radioactive waste. Transmuting or converting this material into less toxic and shorter-lived elements would help to reduce the problem. Such treatment would decrease the amount and heat load of these toxic waste materials. Being radioactive, they must be prevented from going into deep geological repositories and their lifespan has to be limited to manageable timescales.
Transmutation requires a high-power proton accelerator. A new flexible fast spectrum research reactor, planned to be operational by 2023 in Mol (Belgium), is the multi-purpose hybrid research reactor for high-tech applications (MYRRHA). To demonstrate the feasibility of the reactor concept, the 'MYRRHA accelerator experiment, research and development programme' (MAX) project was established with EU funding.
The MAX project will perform developments and experiments on accelerator test sections to increase confidence that the MYRRHA requirements will be fulfilled. In addition to these activities, dedicated studies and simulations will be carried out on general accelerator design and reliability issues.
At its halfway stage, MAX is on schedule. Some initial experimental and simulation results have been produced for developing a new preliminary MYRRHA accelerator design. This design will be used as input for the fine optimisation work to be performed in the second half of the project.
Demonstration of the accelerator-driven system (ADS) concept in MYRRHA will enable the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) to evaluate the viability of the transmutation approach. Finally, the MAX project should also impact all emerging and future accelerator projects featuring high-power proton beams.
To stay at the forefront of nuclear reactor technology and related future developments, the EU must provide for the necessary research infrastructure and tools. As a cornerstone of the European Research Area (ERA) of Experimental Reactors, MYRRHA is moving Europe one step closer to achieving this.