Speaker
Mr
Laurent HARDY
(European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)
Description
Reliability concept was born with world war II. The first reliability models were developed to improve the V2 rockets. Until the years 70s, accelerator reliability was not even considered. Increasing the energy and intensity were the only goals. After the 70s, with the first Users and experimenters, the need of reliability became important (medical accelerator, X-ray sources, etc). Reliability progressively became a major concern for accelerator engineers. Whilst present X-ray sources can tolerate several tens of failures per year, future ADS will not tolerate more than one short failure per year ! I will
Summary
Reliability concept was born with world war II. The first reliability models were developed to improve the V2 rockets. Until the years 70s, accelerator reliability was not even considered. Increasing the energy and intensity were the only goals. After the 70s, with the first Users and experimenters, the need of reliability became important (medical accelerator, X-ray sources, etc). Reliability progressively became a major concern for accelerator engineers. Whilst present X-ray sources can tolerate several tens of failures per year, future ADS will not tolerate more than one short failure per year ! I will present the evolution of the ideas from the first accelerators (Ising concept) to the requirements of the future ADS accelerators.
Primary author
Mr
Laurent HARDY
(European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)
