Organisation:
Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL)
Installation:
HFR
Type:
pool reactor 57 MW, HEU, D2O reflector, Øth=15·1014
n/cm²s,
Address:
6 rue Jules Horowitz, BP 156
38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Home
page:
http://www.ill.fr
Head
of reactor:
Hervé
Guyon
Phone
/ fax:
+33 476-207000, fax -961143
Secretary:
–207237
CNS:
two, one vertical (SFV3), operating since 1985,
one horizontal (SFH), operating since 1987
moderator:
D2
temperature:
25 K
volume:
27 L (SFV3), 6 L (SFH)
phase:
liquid
material:
chamber:
Al99%
vacuum thimble:
Zircaloy
power:
6500 W (SFV3), 3000 W (SFH)
refrigerator
AL,
2 turbines, 1 screw compressor
625 kWel.
heat
removal: gravity,
thermal siphon (SFV3), bubble pump (SFH)
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remarks:
reactor has to stop in case of CNS failure.
One vertical guide in SFV3 for VCN and UCN production.
SFV1 was operating from 1972 to 1985.
A
third CNS is planned (H. Guyon, private communication) see also IGORR2007,
session 1.
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recent
publications: K. Gobrecht in Proc. Workshop on Cold Sources at LANSCE, Los Alamos, 1990,
p.19
H. Guyon on various workshops
UCN
Group around Peter
Geltenbort
Steyerl turbine + 3 UCN guides
recent
publications:
ICANS-XV (Tsukuba 2000): 22.2,
V.V.
Nesvizhevsky et al. in Nature 415, 297 (2002),