The high current cyclotron complex for an electronuclear way of production of energy

Abstract

The prospects of development of an electronuclear method of energy production are considered. The tentative estimation show, that use of accelerators with energy of the protons beam (1–10) MW enables to gain a thermal power of subcritical assembly up to 1 GW. In this case as divided materials are used Th232 [1] or U238 [2,6], which stores essentially exceed stores of isotopes used in a nuclear power engineering now (U235,U233). The offered accelerator-cyclotron complex-now is the cheapest and reliable installation for producing of proton beams with power of some MW. A peak current 1.8 mA (W=590 MeV) of the accelerated protons on a cyclotron PSI (Switzerland) shows that the key physical problems for producing such a beam on a cyclotron are solved. The basic parameters of the complex are based on the results of development of the project “Supercyclotron” which was made in 80–90 years. The offered complex consists of three isochronous cyclotrons with final energies of protons 15, 60 and 800 MeV.