A tentative programme towards a full scale energy amplifier

We present a proposal of a full scale demonstration plant of the Energy Amplifier (EA), following the conceptual design of Ref. [1]. Unlike the presently on going CERN experiments, reaction rates will be sufficiently massive to permit demonstrating the practical feasibility of energy generation on an industrial scale and to tackle the complete family chains of [1] the breeding process in Thorium fuel, [2] the burning of the self-generated Actinides, [3] the Plutonium (higher Actinides) burning of spent fuel from ordinary Reactors and [4] Fuel reprocessing/regeneration. The accelerator must provide a beam power which is commensurate to the rate of transformations which are sought. No existing accelerator can meet such a performance and a dedicated facility must be built. We describe an alternative based on the superconducting cavities (SC) now in standard use at the LEP \[e^+-e^-\] collider which is scheduled to terminate its operation by year 200 After this time, with reasonable modifications, the fully operational and tested LEP SC-system offers the formidable opportunity of being redeployed elsewhere, accelerating a large (30 mA) proton current to at least 1 GeV required by the full scal (1500 \[MW_thermal)\] EA operated at the conservative multiplication coefficient, k = 0.95. Due to the high efficiency of the SCs, even at such small k-value typical for a 3repository2 the fraction of electric power for the accelerator is about 10%. The LEP-SC system is now fully industrialised and it may constitute a well tested and sound basis for the further development of the commercial series. Heat produced by the EA is considerable (4,650 Tons coal/day or 22,70 and justifies our design which is very close to the one of Ref. [1] and to the one of a commercial prototype. At first, one can assume that heat is simply thrown away. Later on, local commercialisation of such energy source is worth considering. T application is electricity generation.