Fifth International Workshop on the Utilisation and Reliability of High Power Proton Accelerators


Mol, Belgium
6-9 May 2007


Hosted by SCK.CEN


 

The NEA Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) organised the fifth international workshop on Utilisation and Reliability of High Power Proton Accelerators. The workshop was held at Mol, Belgium on 6 -9 May 2007. The workshop was hosted by StudieCentrum voor Kernenergie - Centre d'Etude de l'énergie Nucléaire (SCK.CEN) and co-sponsored by Ion Beam Applications (IBA).

Background

R&D activities and construction plans related to high power proton accelerators (HPPAs) are being considered in various countries to promote basic and applied sciences. These include accelerator-driven nuclear energy systems (ADS). The performance of such hybrid nuclear systems depends to a large extent on the specification and reliability of the particle accelerator. 

The present meeting was a follow-up to the fourth international workshop on the Utilisation and Reliability of High Power Proton Accelerators, hosted by the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) and held in Daejon, Republic of Korea in 2004. Many of the questions discussed at the workshop in Korea were further developed during this meeting.

Programme

After the opening presentations, a session devoted to MEGAPIE was held, followed by a series of technical sessions with invited speakers and contributed papers.

Detailed programme (pdf, 25 kb).

Presentation materials (Password required).

Proceedings

All presented papers will be included in the proceedings, which will be published by the NEA shortly after the meeting.  Authors are requested to submit their full papers formatted according to NEA standards. Please note that papers that were not received by 6 May 2007 risk being omitted from the proceedings.

All correspondence with regard to the meeting and the proceedings should be addressed to the workshop Secretariat:

Dr. Yong-Joon CHOI
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
Le Seine St-Germain
12 bld des Iles
92130 Issy-Les-Moulineaux , France
Email:  yongjoon.choi@oecd.org

with a copy to the local organiser

Dr. Ir. Gert VAN DEN EYNDE
SCK . CEN
Reactor Physics & MYRRHA Dept.
Boeretang 200
BE-2400 Mol , Belgium
Email: gvdeynde@sckcen.be

Workshop organisation

Chairperson:

Pierre Joseph D'HONDT ( SCK.CEN, Belgium)

International scientific advisors

Hamid AIT ABDERRAHIM ( SCK.CEN , Belgium)
Dominique WARIN (CEA, France)
Alex MUELLER (CNRS, France)
Joachim U. KNEBEL (FZK, Germany)
Yves JONGEN (IBA, Belgium)
Rudolf MAIER (FZJ, Germany)
Stefano MONTI (ENEA, Italy)
Marco NAPOLITANO (INFN, Italy)
Hiroyuki OIGAWA (JAEA, Japan)
Minoru TAKAHASHI (TIT, Japan)
Byung-Ho CHOI (KAERI, Korea)
Enrique Miguel GONZALEZ (CIEMAT, Spain)
Waclaw GUDOWSKI (RIT, Sweden )
Pierre A. SCHMELZBACH (PSI, Switzerland)
Yoursy GOHAR (ANL, USA)
Richard SHEFFIELD (LANL, USA)
Tony GABRIEL (ORNL, USA)

Local organising committee

Gert VAN DEN EYNDE (gvdeynde@sckcen.be )
Margot DEGREVE (mdegreve@sckcen.be)
Sikkie LENAERTS (alenaert@sckcen.be)
Hamid AIT ABDERRAHIM (haitabde@sckcen.be)
Pierre Joseph D'HONDT (pdhondt@sckcen.be)

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Last updated: 4 June 2007