THE RF SYSTEM FOR ACCELERATOR PRODUCTION OF TRITIUM

A high-power proton linac (linear accelerator) is being proposed for t he next generation tritium source for accelerator production of tritiu m (APT), The proposed proton linac requires a substantial continuous w ave (CW) RF system, This paper presents an overview of accelerator-bas ed tritium production and the details of the CW RF system design, Base d on the current tritium production requirement, the proposed accelera tor will require in excess of 200 MW of installed CW RF power, The ava ilability requirements for the RF system are quite high and an efficie nt low-cost approach to providing redundancy will be discussed, Also p resented are the baseline choices for the RF sources as well as our te chnology development goals and how they impact the RF system design.