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DRAFT<br />

catcher 7 Be, 22 Na and 24 Na are the most important nuclides for activation. After continuous irradiation<br />

over 100 days with 1500 MeV/u 10 12 /s uranium ions and one day of waiting the activity<br />

here reaches 160 Bq/cm 3 . As the strongest contribution 24 Na is rather short lived (T1/2 = 15 h) this<br />

value is reduced after 7 days to 30 Bq/cm 3 . The corresponding integrated dose rates at a distance of<br />

50 cm above the concrete are 8 µSv/h or 2 µSv/h, respectively. The values are slightly lower as the<br />

floor was considered to be concrete and not iron.<br />

At PSI maintenance is carried out at the corresponding position with dose rates up to 100 µSv/h. As<br />

a conclusion the maintenance channel on top of the beam line from target to PF1 is accessible even<br />

after very long irradiation after a few days usually after one day of waiting. This is a reasonable<br />

time scale as anyway the concrete shielding on top has to be removed first. It also means that a plug<br />

with shielding as long as 200 cm is sufficient.<br />

The highly activated parts like beam catcher and target including the shielding plug can then be<br />

pulled into a shielding bottle like the one shown in Figure 2.4.174 used at a corresponding position<br />

at PSI. While the concrete shielding is removed the hall has to be an area of controlled access for<br />

radiation protection. But as the radiation level is rather low it is also clear that with the help of the<br />

shielding bottle the radiation level outside the hall cannot exceed the limit of 0.08 µSv/h explained<br />

above. A hot cell is foreseen to store activated components, inside manipulators will be used to<br />

exchange parts, for example to mount a new target wheel.<br />

Figure 2.4.173: Layout of the <strong>Super</strong>-FRS target building. The top part of the concrete shielding can be<br />

removed to access the working platform. Heavy devices can be transported by crane to the nearby hot cell,<br />

storage places or directly onto a truck which can drive into the hall.<br />

A typical value to still allow hands-on maintenance is 1 W/m for the beam power deposited by a 1<br />

GeV proton beam along the beam line [125]. This value can be scaled to a heavy ion beam considering<br />

the shorter range and nuclear fragmentation [126]. As already described in section<br />

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