LINAC R&D IN KOREA*

A 2-GeV linear accelerator is constructed as an injector to the Pohang Light Source (PLS), the first large-scale accelerator complex in Korea. It is a national synchrotron radiation users ’ facility for basic and applied science research. The PLS storage ring is a third generation machine with a low-emittance, and it has been serving users since September 1995. With the success of this construction project, there are strong demands on accelerator facilities for various applications, such as a neutron facility for transmutation and energy production called the KOMAC-project, a nuclear data center, a mini-cyclotron for radioisotope production. Most of linac R&D programs are subsystems in the low-energy end/or special components to improve the performance of the existing subsystems of the PLS linac. We present the current accelerator status, R&D activities related to linear accelerators at PAL, and the proposed accelerator programs in Korea