25–30 Aug 2024
Hilton Chicago
America/Chicago timezone

Update on the status of Los Alamos Neutron Science Center accelerator modernization

MOPB095
26 Aug 2024, 16:00
2h
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Poster Presentation MC3.4 Proton linac projects Monday Poster Session

Speaker

Steven Russell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Description

The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) accelerator is MW-class H-/H+ 800 MeV linear accelerator that serves five distinct user facilities that support Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) national security missions, commercial applications, and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science medical isotope production program. Now into it’s sixth decade of continuous operation, major accelerator systems are showing their age with decreased reliability and diminished vendor support due to equipment obsolescence. With plans to continue LANSCE operations for several more decades, LANL is exploring different avenues to modernize large portions of the accelerator. We will present the current status of those plans and an overview of supporting R&D.

Funding Agency

National Nuclear Security Agency

Author

Steven Russell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Co-authors

Bruce Carlsten (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Eric Brown (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Gregory Dale (Los Alamos National Laboratory) John Lyles (Los Alamos National Laboratory) John Tapia (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Joseph Bradley III (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Mark Gulley (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

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