High Power Proton Accelerator in Korea*

A high power proton accelerator project, Proton Engineering Frontier Project (PEFP), as one of the 21C Frontier Projects promoted by Korean Government, has the goals to develop a 100 MeV high current proton linear accelerator and the user programs for its beam utilization and industrial applications. The upstream part of the 100 MeV linac, the 20 MeV linac, was successfully developed and tested. The rest part of the accelerator and beam lines and user facilities are under development, and also the site preparation and construction works are in progress. In parallel, proton beam utilizations and accelerator application technologies have been extensively studied and developed. In this paper, the status and the future plan of the project, including beam test results of the 20 MeV linac, site preparation and construction works, and development of proton beam utilization and user program are presented.