Grants of 6.5 million from the Swedish Energy Agency to the Tandem Accelerator
Petter Ström and Rob Frost in front of the irradiation beamline which can now be upgraded and improved with the grant from the Swedish Energy Agency
Petter Ström and Rob Frost of the Materials Physics research group at Uppsala University have received grants to improve the Tandem Laboratory’s largest accelerator.
We are happy to share that Petter Ström and Rob Frost have been granted SEK 2 032 398 and SEK 4 490 000, respectively, by the Swedish Energy Agency (Energimyndigheten).
The funded projects, ‘Improvement of an ion beam facility for investigations of neutron damage in reactor materials’ and ‘A unique Swedish infrastructure for studying the material properties of nuclear fuels’ will work in synergy to:
- add to the current infrastructure at the Tandem Laboratory
- enable upgrades of the existing irradiation beamline
- provide hands-on support and training to external users, thus broadening the facility’s user base.
Particular focus is placed on the application of ion beams for irradiation tests of nuclear materials. The projects thus support the push towards development and implementation of next generation nuclear energy in Sweden and abroad
The 5 MV Tandem accelerator
The 5 MV 15SDH-2 Tandem Pelletron accelerator from NEC is the largest accelerator at the Tandem Laboratory.
Four dedicated sources produce a broad range of light and heavy ion species with energies between 2 MeV to several 10 MeV. The Tandem accelerator supplies ions to six different beamlines, enabling the machine’s use for a number of different techniques within ion beam analysis and ion beam modification of materials.
Project pages on the Swedish Energy Agencys website