Title:
ACCELERATOR DRIVEN POWER GENERATION
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2011/146705
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A redundant, low cost accelerator driven system for power generation or waste treatment. The system generates fission from fertile nuclear materials and includes multiple charged particle sources, nested redundancy of low energy accelerator sections for reliability, and multiple subcritical reactors. Merging and splitting devices based on radiofrequency transverse kickers enable the nested redundancy. A control system provides RF buckets with identifiers, enabling the control of charged particles on an RF bucket basis through the accelerator, for the delivery to a desired subcritical reactor of a desired number of RF buckets of such predetermined characteristics to generate a desired reactor power. Consequently, the power level of each reactor may be controlled independently even though a large part of the high power accelerator system is used to feed multiple reactors simultaneously.
Inventors:
JOHNSON ROLLAND P
Application Number:
PCT/US2011/037132
Publication Date:
April 10, 2014
Filing Date:
May 19, 2011
Export Citation:
Assignee:
ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGIES INC (US)
JOHNSON ROLLAND P
JOHNSON ROLLAND P
International Classes:
G21C1/30
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Other References:
TAKIZUKA: "Effects of accelerator beam trips on ADS components", UTILISATION AND RELIABILITY OF HIGH POWER PROTON ACCELERATORS; WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS, 13 October 1998 (1998-10-13), pages 317 - 329
BAUER ET AL.: "Beam trips and target/subcrificai reactor problems in accelerator driven facilities", UTILISATION AND RELIABILITY OF HIGH POWER PROTON ACCELERATORS; WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS, 13 October 1998 (1998-10-13), pages 355 - 370
BAUER ET AL.: "Beam trips and target/subcrificai reactor problems in accelerator driven facilities", UTILISATION AND RELIABILITY OF HIGH POWER PROTON ACCELERATORS; WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS, 13 October 1998 (1998-10-13), pages 355 - 370
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
HARPER, M. Bruce (222 Central Park Avenue Suite 170, Virginia Beach Virginia, US)
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