The Idaho Accelerator Center of the Idaho State University hosted a third annual Workshop on Accelerator-Driven Subcritical System (ADSS) Experiments on June 1 & 2, 2005. In this unique workshop nuclear engineering and physics faculty and research scientists from Idaho State University, Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and University of Michigan met with scientists and engineers from Los Alamos and Argonne National Laboratories as well as several international organizations. They discussed the use of accelerators in nuclear experiments for the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative (AFCI) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as well as for European programs. This is the only DOE-sponsored workshop on the coupling of neutron-generating accelerator systems and subcritical nuclear assemblies or reactors.

The workshop included presentations on the latest results and status of U.S. and international ADSS experiments, with the final day focused on the AFCI Reactor Accelerator Coupling Experiments (RACE) Project. The RACE Project is a series of ongoing and future experiments to determine the performance of subcritical driven nuclear reactor systems. At ISU, UT-Austin, and Texas A&M the driving source uses gamma-n reactions produced by ISUs electron accelerators. Future European efforts will be concentrated on a collaboration between the ISU-led RACE Project and the European ECATS project (Experiment on the Coupling of an Accelerator, a spallation Target and a Sub-critical blanket, a component of EUROTRANS). The ultimate goal of these experiments is to develop the ability to model and control large, high-power ADSS coupled to high-energy proton accelerators.

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