About using of ion accelerators in Accelerator Driven Systems

The prospects of using of light nuclei accelerators (d- and α-particles beams in Accelerator Driven Molten Salt Breeder for the production of ²³³U and thermal power is shown without a discussion of the problems of their construction and design. The replacement of the proton beam by deuterium or α-particles ones allows to reduce the energy cost of one neutron from 11.5 MeV up to 9.3 – 10 MeV, to increase the number of neutrons per one particle of the beam and their average energy. It leads to gain of fissile nuclei and thermal power production in AMSB by ≈ 1.2 – 1.3 times.