Conference

Major Projects for the Use of High Power Linacs

M. Promé

CEA, France

Abstract

A review of the major projects for high power linacs is given. The field covers the projects aiming at the transmutation of nuclear waste or the production of tritium, as well as the production of neutrons for hybrid reactors or basic research with neutron sources. The technologies which are common to all the projects are discussed. Comments are made on the technical difficulties encountered by all the projects, and the special problems of the pulsed linacs are mentioned. Elements for a comparison of normal conducting linacs versus superconducting ones are given. Finally, the technical developments being made in various laboratories are reviewed.

sln 18 March 1996