RIA - ISOL Station R&D

This FWP represents the ORNL contribution of the ongoing R&D effort on the Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) project in thedevelopment of an ISOL Target station pre-conceptual design. This effort, which is led by Michigan State University, includesdevelopment of layouts for the entire ISOL station and overall remote handling concepts for maintaining a variety of target typesand related utility equipment development. Materials science and technology and neutronic efforts are included in addition toengineering design and analysis. This work is related to other RIA efforts including development of design concepts and remotehandling approaches for the fragmentation target area, including the beam dump, fragmentation target, and magnet separator. Theseareas are covered in a separate FWP. This year's work will build on the progress achieved on the development of the overall ISOLTarget station, and the following years will use the designs to fabricate mock-ups of the systems for remote handling demonstrationand optimization.