This publication contains the technical papers presented at a NEA workshop, held in the Republic of Korea in May 2004, to consider research into the use of accelerator-driven systems (ADS) in radioactive waste management, as well as summaries of the working group discussions. Topics discussed include: accelerator reliability; target, window and coolant technology; sub-critical system design and ADS simulations; safety and control of ADS; ADS experiments and test facilities.

This volume captures the contents of the talks given at the Workshop on Applications of High Intensity Proton Accelerators held at Fermilab Oct 19ndash;21, 2009. This workshop brought together experts from a variety of disciplines to explore new and profound ways proton accelerators can be used in the future. The workshop explored uses of such a proton source for producing intense muon, kaon and neutrino beams as well as using the intense protons for new forms of nuclear reactors that go by the name Accelerator Driven Sub-critical systems that promise to increase our available nuclear fuel supply by orders of magnitude while at the same time solving the nuclear waste problem. Intense proton beams can also be used to produce short-lived nuclear isotopes that are important in the medical industry.

This publication presents the proceedings of a NEA workshop, held in May 2002 in the US, to discuss RandD activities regarding the use of high power proton accelerators in nuclear energy systems. Issues discussed include: the reliability of the accelerator and the impact of beam interruptions on the design and performance of accelerator-driven systems; spallation target design characteristics and their impact on the subcritical system design; safety and operational characteristics of a subcritical system driven by a spallation source; and test facilities.

These proceedings of the Second Workshop on Utilisation and Reliability of High Power Proton Accelerators placed special emphasis on accelerator-driven system (ADS) concepts comprising a sub-critical reactor coupled with a high power accelerator.

Contents:Progress of RFQ and Superconducting Accelerators in China (C E Chen et al.)QCD Phase Transition in the Laboratory and in the Early Universe (B Sinha)Frontiers in Ultrafast Laser Science (W Sibbett)Asymmetries of Sea Quark Distributions in Baryons (M Alberg et al.)A Variational Approach to Many-Particle Systems (C K Kim et al.)Synchrotron Radiation Activities at KEK (M Kihara)Results of the UNU/ICTP PFF Network (S Lee)New Generation Positron-Atom Scattering Theories (K Ratnavelu)Superconducting Pairing of Quarks in QCD (N V Hieu & L T Tuong)Photon-Gated Persistent Spectral Hole Burning (Y X Nie & L Z Zhao)Wind Driven Circulation of the South China Sea (A Camerlengo)Effect of Soil Type on Environmental Terrestrial Gamma Radiation Dose in Johor State, Malaysia (A T Ramli et al.)Research in Optical Fibres Devices at Telekom Malaysia Photonics Laboratory (H B Ahmad et al.)Simplifying Complexity (W A T Wan Abdullah)Gravitational Wave Detection in the Laboratory (Y T Chen et al.)and other papers Readership: Theoretical physicists.

Nuclear Safety provides the methods and data needed to evaluate and manage the safety of nuclear facilities and related processes using risk-based safety analysis, and provides readers with the techniques to assess the consequences of radioactive releases. The book covers relevant international and regional safety criteria (US, IAEA, EUR, PUN, URD, INI). The contents deal with each of the critical components of a nuclear plant, and provide an analysis of the risks arising from a variety of sources, including earthquakes, tornadoes, external impact and human factors. It also deals with the safety of underground nuclear testing and the handling of radioactive waste. - Covers all plant components and potential sources of risk including human, technical and natural factors. - Brings together information on nuclear safety for which the reader would previously have to consult many different and expensive sources. - Provides international design and safety criteria and an overview of regulatory regimes.