Author: Boucher, S.
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WEPA43 Self-Contained Linac Irradiator for the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) 728
 
  • A. Diego, R.B. Agustsson, R.D. Berry, S. Boucher, O. Chimalpopoca, S.V. Kutsaev, A.Yu. Smirnov, V.S. Yu
    RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, California, USA
  • S.J. Coleman
    RadiaSoft LLC, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  
  Funding: This work was financed by the US department of energy SBIR grant no. DE- SC0020010.
A 3-MeV X-band linac has been de­vel­oped em­ploy­ing a cost-ef­fec­tive split struc­ture de­sign in order to re­place ra­dioac­tive iso­tope ir­ra­di­a­tors cur­rently used for the Ster­ile In­sect Tech­nique (SIT) and other ap­pli­ca­tions. The pen­e­tra­tion of a Co-60 ir­ra­di­a­tor can be matched with Bremsstrahlung pro­duced by a 3-MeV elec­tron beam. The use of elec­tron ac­cel­er­a­tors elim­i­nates se­cu­rity risks and haz­ards in­her­ent with ra­dioac­tive sources. We pre­sent the cur­rent state of this X-band split struc­ture linac and the rest of the ir­ra­di­a­tor sys­tem. 		 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2022-WEPA43  
About • Received ※ 04 August 2022 — Revised ※ 06 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 12 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 16 September 2022
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