Izvestiya vuzov. Yadernaya Energetika

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Myrrha accelerator driven system programme: recent progress and perspectives

6/24/2019 2019 - #02 Current issues in nuclear energy

H.A. Abderrahim D. De Bruyn M. Dierckx R. Fernandez L. Popescu M. Schyns A. Stankovskiy G. Van den Eynde D. Vandeplassche

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26583/npe.2019.2.03

UDC: 621.039.5

The purpose of the MYRRHA programme is to demonstrate the ADS concept at pre industrial scale, to prove the transmutation efficiency in ADS and to serve as a flexible and multipurpose irradiation facility. The MYRRHA subcritical core fueled with highly enriched MOX fuel and cooled with LBE will be operated by a highpower superconducting linear accelerator delivering a proton beam of 600 MeV, 4 mA to an LBE spallation target. In September 2018, the Belgian government has approved the construction of the MYRRHA facility and its operation until 2038. In this paper, we describe the present status of the MYRRHA programme and the perspectives for implementation through a first infrastructure in 2026 to the full MYRRHA operation in 2036.

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Link for citing the article: H.A. Abderrahim, D. De Bruyn, M. Dierckx, R. Fernandez, L. Popescu, M. Schyns, A. Stankovskiy, G. Van den Eynde, D. Vandeplassche Myrrha accelerator driven system programme: recent progress and perspectives. Izvestiya vuzov. Yadernaya Energetika. 2019, no. 2, pp. 29-42; DOI: https://doi.org/10.26583/npe.2019.2.03 (in Russian).

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