Design Status and Future Research Programme for a Sub-critical Assembly Driven by a Proton Accelerator with Proton Energy 660 Mev for Experiments on Long-lived Fission Products and Minor Actinides Transmutation (sad)

Report presents project for the construction of a low power integral system on the basis of the proton accelerator of energy 660 MeV and sub-critical MOX blanket with uranium-plutonium fuel. Installation includes sub-critical core with a nominal thermal power of 15-20 kW. Multiplication coefficient keff = 0.95 and the accelerator beam power of 0.75-1 kW. The experimental programme for SAD will be focused on solving different aspects of reactor physics, reaction rates measurements and benchmarking. The first conceptual design of the SAD experiment is completed in the form of the ISTC Project Proposal #2267. Realisation of the SAD facility may be expected in about 3-4 years.