RF system considerations for accelerator production of tritium and the transmutation of nuclear waste

Author

Tallerico, P.J. ; Lynch, M.T.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

5-8 Dec. 1993

Firstpage

141

Lastpage

144

Abstract

RF driven proton accelerators for the transmutation of nuclear waste (ATW) or for the production of tritium (APT) require unprecedented amounts of CW RF power at UHF frequencies. For both systems, the baseline design is for 246 MW at 700 MHz and 8.5 MW at 350 MHz. The main technical challenges are how to design and build such a large system so that it has excellent reliability, high efficiency, and reasonable capital cost. The issues associated with the selection of the RF amplifier and the sizes of the power supplies are emphasized in this paper.<>

Keywords

power supplies to apparatus; proton accelerators; radioactive waste; tritium; 246 MW; 350 MHz; 700 MHz; 8.5 MW; CW RF power; RF amplifier; RF driven proton accelerators; RF system considerations; UHF frequencies; accelerator tritium production; nuclear waste transmutation; power supplies; Acceleration; Klystrons; Linear particle accelerator; Optical coupling; Particle beams; Production systems; Proton accelerators; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Resistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electron Devices Meeting, 1993. IEDM '93. Technical Digest., International

Conference_Location

Washington, DC, USA

ISSN

0163-1918

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1450-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEDM.1993.347380

Filename

347380