Ponentes
Descripción
The MINERVA project is currently designing/constructing a 100MeV, 4mA proton, super-conducting linac at the Belgian nuclear research center SCK CEN.
Once operational, it will be used to demonstrate compliance to the extraordinarily high operational reliability requirements. These are imposed by its expected future role as the first part of the MYRRHA Accelerator Driven System (ADS), where a 600MeV linac will deliver beam into a sub-critical nuclear reactor to demonstrate transmutation of nuclear waste.
It will also deliver beam to two target facilities: One is dedicated to fusion material research and the other one is an ISOL facility dedicated to production of novel radio isotopes and fundamental RIB research.
This contribution will give an overview of the projects objectives, status and future plans.
