The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is organising the first international workshop on Technology and Components of Accelerator-driven Systems (TCADS-1). The meeting was held in Karlsruhe, Germany on 15-17 March 2010, hosted by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and co-sponsored by EUROTRANS.
The accelerator driven system (ADS) is a potential option of a transmutation system in terms of the partitioning and transmutation strategies for the radioactive waste in the advanced nuclear fuel cycle. Following the success of the workshop series on the utilisation and reliability of high power proton accelerators (HPPAs), the scope of the new workshop series has been extended to cover sub-critical systems as well as the use of neutron sources. This workshop provides experts with a forum to present and discuss state-of-the-art developments in the field of ADS and neutron sources.
The workshop covers: R&D status on ADS including accelerators, neutron sources and sub-critical systems for current facilities and future experimental and power systems; technology, engineering and research aspects of the above components; system optimisation for reducing capital and operational costs; and the role of ADS in advanced fuel cycles.
Proposed topics and subjects discussed are:
Pierre J. D'hondt (SCK•CEN, Belgium) |
Alex Mueller (CNRS, France) |
Dominique Warin (CEA, France) | Horst Klein (Univ. Frankfurt, Germany) |
Joachim U. Knebel (KIT, Germany) | Concetta Fazio (KIT, Germany) |
Marco Napolitano (INFN, Italy) |
Stefano Monti (ENEA, Italy) |
Jonghwa Chang (KAERI, Korea) |
Minoru Takahashi (TIT, Japan) |
John Galambos (ORNL, USA) |
Mike Seidel (PSI, Switzerland) |
Richard Sheffield (LANL, USA) |
Yousry Gohar (ANL, USA) |
All correspondence with regard to the meeting should be addressed to the meeting organisers:
Chair Dr. Joachim U. Knebel |
Secretary Dr. Yong-Joon ChoiOECD Nuclear Energy Agency Le Seine Saint-Germain 12 boulevard des Îles 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux France E-mail: |
Last reviewed: 1 Arpil 2010