The RF system for accelerator production of tritium

Author

Rees, Daniel E. ; Tallerico, Paul J. ; Lynch, Michael T.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

Volume

24

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1033

Lastpage

1040

Abstract

A high-power proton linac (linear accelerator) is being proposed for the next generation tritium source for accelerator production of tritium (APT). The proposed proton linac requires a substantial continuous wave (CW) RF system. This paper presents an overview of accelerator-based tritium production and the details of the CW RF system design. Based on the current tritium production requirement, the proposed accelerator will require in excess of 200 MW of installed CW RF power. The availability requirements for the RF system are quite high and an efficient low-cost approach to providing redundancy will be discussed. Also presented are the baseline choices for the RF sources as well as our technology development goals and how they impact the RF system design

Keywords

linear accelerators; particle sources; proton accelerators; tritium; 200 MW; T; T accelerator production; T source; continuous wave RF system; high-power proton linac; low-cost approach; Acceleration; Availability; Control systems; Linear accelerators; Linear particle accelerator; Particle beams; Production systems; Proton accelerators; Radio frequency; Senior members;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/27.533110

Filename

533110