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Article
Report number	CNIC-01638 ; CNNC-0003
Title	Conceptual study of high power proton linac for accelerator driven subcritical nuclear power system
Author(s)	Yu Qi ; Guan Xia Ling ; Ouyang Hua Fu ; Xu Tao Guang
Publication	2001
Imprint	2001
Number of pages	3
In:	2nd Asian Particle Accelerator Conference, Beijing, China, 17 - 21 Sep 2001, pp.THP013
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Abstract	As a prior option of the next generation of energy source, the accelerator driven subcritical nuclear power system (ADS) can use efficiently the uranium and thorium resource, transmute the high-level long-lived radioactive wastes and raise nuclear safety. The ADS accelerator should provide the proton beam with tens megawatts. The superconducting linac is a good selection of ADS accelerator because of its high efficiency and low beam loss rate. The ADS accelerator presented by the consists of a 5 MeV radio-frequency quadrupole, a 100 MeV independently phased superconducting cavity linac and a 1 GeV elliptical superconducting cavity linac. The accelerating structures and main parameters are determined and the research and development plan is considered