This document identifies design strategies to enhance reliability and reduce costs in high-intensity proton accelerators, suggesting implications for nuclear waste transmutation.
This document identifies and discusses the proper design strategies that have been followed in order to meet the reliability and availability specifications for a high intensity proton accelerator meant as the spallation neutron driver for an eXperimental Driven System (XADS) for nuclear waste transmutation. The document describes also how these strategies can be applied in the different components of the XADS accelerator design, and how design iterations can lead to reliability improvements. The Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) methodology has been used on the suggested design for highlighting the reliability critical areas. Finally, a first rough cost estimation of the XADS accelerator is also provided.
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