Activity report of working party on accelerator-driven transmutation system; October 2003 to March 2005

Division of Nuclear Data and Reactor Engineering, Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate

Under the Research Committee on Reactor Physics, the Working Party on Accelerator-Driven Transmutation System (ADS-WP) was set in July 2003 to research the issues related to Accelerator-Driven System (ADS) for Transmutation. The WP, at the first meeting, discussed a guideline of its activity for two years and continued the research activities up to March 2005. The ADS-WP studied about the follows three issues: (1)Examining the effect of the nuclear data to the core characteristics of advanced nuclear systems and summarizing the requirement of the nuclear data for researching the advanced nuclear system, (2)Surveying the current program of the research facilities for ADS (J-PARC, TEF-P, TEF-T, KUCA and overseas facilities), (3)Summarizing the requirements and the proposals to a new critical facility for ADS. This report summarizes the outline and results of the ADS-WP activity.