A superconducting isochronous cyclotron stack as a driver for a thorium-cycle power reactor Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Designs for thorium-cycle power reactors require a proton driver capable of 1 GeV energy and 10 MW total power. For this purpose we have prepared a preliminary design for the magnetic structure for a stack of 5 superconducting isochronous cyclotrons, each delivering 2 MW beam power. By achieving the required power with multiple independent apertures rather than pushing beyond currently achieved limits, we hope to arrive at a design that is cost-minimum and reliable. Each sector magnet consists of a flux-coupled stack of cold-iron inserts supported within a single warm-iron, in a fashion inspired by the new Riken heavy-ion cyclotron. We have developed a preliminary field design in which in-plane fields are cancelled in all 5 apertures and the field-map is appropriate for the focusing optics of the sector cyclotron.

published proceedings

  • Proceedings of the IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference

author list (cited authors)

  • Kim, G., May, D., McIntyre, P., & Sattarov, A.

complete list of authors

  • Kim, G||May, D||McIntyre, P||Sattarov, A

publication date

  • December 2001