Accelerator-driven Advanced Nuclear Energy System and Its Research Progress

To address these challenges, including the low utilization rate of nuclear fuel and difficulties in safe disposal of nuclear spent fuels, Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed an accelerator-driven advanced nuclear energy system (ADANES). A lot of large-scale preliminary calculations and tests were carried out on superconducting linear accelerator, high-power spallation target, core structural material, spent fuel reprocessing and new fuel preparation. The feasibility of the principle was proved, and a series of laboratory simulation validations were completed and breakthroughs were made. At present, China initiative Accelerator Driven System (CiADS) has been supported by the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” national major scientific and technological infrastructure, and is scheduled to start construction in 2019.