10–15 Aug 2025
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
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SNS Second Target Station proton accelerator shielding design and accident scenario evaluation

TUBD01
12 Aug 2025, 11:30
20m
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

1401 K St, Sacramento, CA 95814
Contributed Oral Presentation MC4 – Hadron Accelerators TUBD: Hadron Accelerators (Contributed)

Speaker

Wouter de Wet (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Description

Design of the Second Target Station (STS) for Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) world-class Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) Facility is underway. The STS will provide an optimized high-brightness cold neutron source for up to 18 new beamlines, both expanding and complimenting the current neutron science capabilities at ORNL. The Ring to Second Target beam Transport (RTST) will deliver a 700kW beam of 1.3GeV protons at 15Hz to a rotating target composed of individual water-cooled tungsten wedge segments. Spanning roughly 220m, the RTST will consist of 56 quadrupole focusing magnets and 15 dipole bending magnets. Installation and maintenance of large beamline components will be facilitated via a truck access tunnel. While the proton accelerator is in operation, the truck access tunnel entrance is shielded by an arrangement of stacked steel shielding blocks. This shielding design must account for both normal operating conditions as well as design-basis accident scenarios. Provided in this work is an analysis of the accelerator truck access tunnel shielding design for a worst-case full beam loss accident scenario.

Funding Agency

This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE).

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Author

Wouter de Wet (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Co-author

James McLaurin (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

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