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1 MYRRHA Multipurpose hybrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications Current status Prof. Dr. Peter BAETEN / MYRRHA pbaeten@sckcen.be or myrrha@sckcen.be

2 MYRRHA - Accelerator Driven System Accelerator (600 MeV - 4 ma proton) Reactor Subcritical or Critical modes 65 to 100 MWth Spallation Source Multipurpose Flexible Irradiation Facility Fast Neutron Source Lead-Bismuth coolant

3 Objectives MYRRHA: a multipurpose irradiation facility at 1962 BR2 Material Testing Reactor (fission) Fuel testing for LWR & GEN II/GEN III Irradiation Services: - Medical RI - Silicium Doping - Others 2026 MYRRHA Fast Neutron Material Testing Reactor (fission + fusion) ADS-Demo + P&T Testing (Partitioning & Transmutation) Irradiation Services: - Medical RI - Silicium Doping - Others Fuel testing for LFR GEN IV LFR European Technology Pilot Plant (ETPP)

4 MYRRHA part of ESNII European Sustainable Nuclear Industrial Initiative

5 Ion Source + LEBT (MARISA FP) Accelerator: on-going activities Beam window break (MARISA FP) RFQ@UCL, RFQ prototyping at IAP-Frankfurt (MYRTE H2020) 2nd Spoke cavity prototyping + testing in cryomodule (MYRTE H2020)

6 MYRRHA rev. 1.6

7 MYRRHA rev. 1.6

8 MYRRHA rev. 1.6

9 Core lay-out: 151 positions 37 multifunctional plugs Testing of: Materials Fuel In fast neutron field Various In-Pile structures: Open tube, submerged in LBE: direct contact LBE-sample Timble tube, submerged in LBE: no direct contact LBE-sample Various coolants/contact fluids under study: Gas (He, N 2, ) Liquid metals (Na, Pb, NaK, ) Material & Fuel R&D programmes

10 MYRRHA rev. 1.6

11 Material Irradiation Performances for FR Reactors MW IPS in Chan [0 0 0] IPS in Chan [2 0 0] Sample n dpa/efpy Φ tot dpa/efpy Φ tot E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E+15

12 MYRRHA-IMIFF for fusion material In critical mode (fast reactor), appmhe/dpa ~ 0.2 to 1 not optimal for fusion materials experiments In sub-critical mode (ADS), high appmhe/dpa ratio is reached, specially in the region of the window of spallation source Volume of 1 lt with appmhe/dpa ~ 12 close to spallation target

13 MYRRHA for fusion irradiations Estimated damage induced in DEMO and proposed irradiation conditions in IFMIF and MYRRHA-IMIFF

14 Radioisotope (Mo-99) production capability 73 MW 300 Specific activity (Ci/g-U) Mo-99, upper set Mo-99, central set Mo-99, lower set Tc-99m, upper set Tc-99m, central set Tc-99m, lower set Average specific power 173 W/cm W/cm Time (hours) 171 W/cm 2

15 Cooling systems

16 Integration into building

17 Integration into building

18 FEED-contract planning Consortium: AREVA TA-ANSALDO-EA During negociations phased approach introduced : colored phases, in function of new priorities and available resources and budgets Planning yellow phase: Start : 21/10/2013 Functional specifications : September 2014 ( M1 ) Technical specifications : December 2014 ( M2 ) Yellow Phase (preliminary design): 2015

19 LiLiPuTTeR-II HELIOS 3 Heavy Liquid Metal Lab MEXICO CRAFT LIMETS 3 RHAPTER COMPLOT ESCAPE US lab LBE R&D programme LBE conditionning Materials Component testing & TH Instrumentation Democritos (VKI) + European platforms (KIT, ENEA, KTH) + JAEA

20 MYRRHA R&D facilities in TCH HLM Lab LIMETS US Lab CRAFT MEXICO COMPLOT LILIPUT. ESCAPE HELIOS RHAPTER 20

21 CRAFT corrosion/erosion loop 21

22 MEXICO-Ground floor Filter housing 1 Filter housing 2 Coriolis mass flowmeter Dump Tank

23 GUINEVERE at VENUS HVAC with absolute filter Deuterium source Bending magnet Dock station of the vertical line Vertical line GENEPI-3C Control room VENUS Control room GENEPI-3C 23 Venus bunker

24 VENUS-F GENEPI-3C first coupling 12 October 2011 Power 0.05W Subcritical configuration Pulsed mode: 200 Hz, 20mA peak current 106 n/pulse

25 Progress in the MYRRHA licensing programme Development and implementation of guidelines Implementation of guideline on seismic and aircraft crash finalized; Further development of guidance on flooding in finalisation Focus Points (FP s) All presently applicable Focus Point Fiches are finalized About 25% of listed FP s deliverables have been provided to the regulatory bodies. Dossier d Options et Provisions File (DOPF) (consisting of 5 volumes) Evaluation of DOPF Volume 2 (Safety Approach) recently issued by the regulatory bodies. Discussion on-going (135 comments); Development of DOPF Volume 3 (Options and provisions including detailed justification) by still in progress for a large part of this year.

26 MYRRHA Consortium status update European Commission European Commission May 2013 Submission of the report The MYRRHA ESFRI Project, Excellence in Science Towards Sustainability to tackle societal challenges. November 2013 Working meeting between European Commissioner G. Oettinger and Secretary of State M. Wathelet 18 February 2014 Visit of European Commissioner of Energy Günther Oettinger and State-Secretaries Melchior Wathelet and Servais Verherstraeten to SCK CEN 3 April 2014 Letter of European Commissioner of Energy Oettinger expressing support of the EC to MYRRHA

27 Date MYRRHA Consortium status Japan Topic 22 Feb Submission of a Letter of Intent by JAEA for the participation of Japan in MYRRHA 19 May 2014 MYRRHA Workshop at the Belgian Embassy in Tokyo Attended by more than forty high-level Japanese guests (MEXT, JAEA, Mitsubishi HI, Hitachi Corp. Toshiba-GE, Fuji Electric Comp,, Kyoto University, Tokyo University, Rikken Cyclotron Res. Centre) MYRRHA on JAEA P&T Roadmap Negotiation on-going on definition of level of participation

28 MYRRHA Consortium status Germany National Committee established to evaluate Partitioning & Transmutation (P&T) as part of the German policy for high level nuclear waste management (with emphasis on the Accelerator-driven systems route) Evaluation panel composed of nuclear scientists, experts in human sciences complemented with three international experts Assessment of added value of participation by Germany in MYRRHA Evaluation report published under the leadership of the Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (ACATECH). The report: Expresses support to P&T as a technology for HLW management; Proposes to continue research in Germany in an international context; Expresses preference for the ADS option at R&D level Decision by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and/or Federal Ministry of Zconomics and Energy (BMWi) anticipated by end of 2014

29 MYRRHA in the 2014 BE Gov. Declaration The Belgian Government will support in a progressive way the MYRRHA project or any equivalent project at aiming to continue the needed research for innovative solutions for High level waste, qualification of materials for fusion, the production of radioisotopes for medical applications in our country and fundamental nuclear research in collaboration with the universities and sister organisation of

30 Rev1.6 is a coherent and consistent design but towards v1.8 outcome R&D will have to be incorporated Conclusion Accelerator will be continued within MYRTE with the building of the MYRRHA Injector Prelicensing phase will be extended after 2014 to address focuss points and DOPF Negociations with the new Belgian Government will lead to the detailed workplan after 2014

31 MYRRHA: EXPERIMENTAL ACCELERATOR DRIVEN SYSTEM A pan-european, innovative and unique facility

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