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ARPA-E announces $40 million to develop transmutation technologies for UNF
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) announced $40 million in funding to develop cutting-edge technologies to enable the transmutation of used nuclear fuel into less-radioactive substances. According to ARPA-E, the new initiative addresses one of the agency’s core goals as outlined by Congress: to provide transformative solutions to improve the management, cleanup, and disposal of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel.
V. Santoro, K. H. Andersen, P. Bentley, M. Bernasconi, M. Bertelsen, Y. Beßler, A. Bianchi, T. Brys, D. Campi, A. Chambon, V. Czamler, D. D. Di Julio, E. Dian, K. Dunne, M. J. Ferreira, P. Fierlinger, U. Friman-Gayer, B. T. Folsom, A. Gaye, G. Gorini, C. Happe, M. Holl, Y. Kamyshkov, T. Kittelmann, E. B. Klinkby, R. Kolevatov, S. I. Laporte, B. Lauritzen, J. I. Marquez Damian, B. Meirose, F. Mezei, D. Milstead, G. Muhrer, V. Neshvizhevsky, B. Rataj, N. Rizzi, L. Rosta, S. Samothrakitis, H. Schober, J. R. Selknaes, S. Silverstein, M. Strobl, M. Strothmann, A. Takibayev, R. Wagner, P. Willendrup, S. Xu, S. C. Yiu, L. Zanini, O. Zimmer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 198 | Number 1 | January 2024 | Pages 31-63
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2204184
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The European Spallation Source (ESS), presently under construction in Lund, Sweden, is a multidisciplinary international laboratory that, once completed at full specifications, will operate the world’s most powerful pulsed neutron source. Supported by a 3 M Euro Research and Innovation Action within the European Union Horizon 2020 program, a design study (HighNESS) is now underway to develop a second neutron source located below the spallation target. Compared to the first source, which is located above the spallation target and designed for high cold and thermal brightness, the new source is being optimized to deliver higher intensity and a shift to longer wavelengths in the spectral regions of cold neutrons (CNs) (2 to 20 Å), very cold neutrons (VCNs) (10 to 120 Å), and ultracold neutrons (UCNs) (500 Å). The second source consists of a large liquid deuterium moderator to deliver CNs and serve secondary VCN and UCN sources, for which different options are under study. These new sources will boost several areas of condensed matter research and will provide unique opportunities in fundamental physics. The HighNESS project is now entering its last year, and we are working toward the Conceptual Design Report of the ESS upgrade. In this paper, results obtained in the first 2 years, ongoing developments, and future perspectives are described.