French Accelerator Research for ADS Developments

Teams from the CEA and CNRS French research agencies are working on high-intensity high-duty factor proton, H– and deuteron linear accelerators for several applications (waste transmutation, nuclear and high-energy physics, spallation neutron sources, tritium production, materials irradiation facilities...). The R&D programmes undertaken to progress on the different components of such linacs and the simulation tools developed to optimise their design will be described.