Transmutation experimental facility

Oigawa, Hiroyuki 

The Partitioning and Transmutation technology for long-lived nuclear wastes is important to utilize the nuclear energy in sustainable manner. In the J-PARC project, the "Transmutation Experimental Facility (TEF)" is planned to be constructed aiming at the experimental study on the accelerator-driven transmutation system (ADS) for effective transmutation of minor actinides and other transmutation systems including fast reactors. TEF consists of two buildings: the Transmutation Physics Experimental Facility where the reactor physics and the controllability of ADS are to be studied using MA-bearing fuel and a low-power proton beam, and the ADS Target Test Facility where the technological development of a spallation target and related materials for ADS is to conducted using a 200kW proton beam.