Concept of transmutation experimental facility

Oigawa, Hiroyuki ; Sasa, Toshinobu   ; Kikuchi, Kenji; Nishihara, Kenji  ; Kurata, Yuji; Umeno, Makoto*; Tsujimoto, Kazufumi ; Saito, Shigeru   ; Futakawa, Masatoshi  ; Mizumoto, Motoharu; Takano, Hideki*

Under the framework of J-PARC, the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) plans to construct the Transmutation Experimental Facility (TEF). The TEF consists of two facilities: the Transmutation Physics Experimental Facility (TEF-P) and the ADS Target Test Facility (TEF-T). The TEF-P is a critical facility which can accept a 600 MeV - 10 W proton beam. The TEF-T is a material irradiation facility using a 600 MeV - 200 kW proton beam, where a Pb-Bi target is installed, but neutron multiplication by nuclear fuel will not be attempted. This report describes the purposes of the facility, the present status of the conceptual design, and the expected experiments to be performed.