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Experimental Validation of 3-D Reconstructed Pin Power Distributions in Full-Scale BWR Fuel Assemblies with Partial-Length Rods

Total fission rate measurements have been performed on full-size boiling water reactor fuel assemblies of type SVEA-96 Optima2 in the framework of phase III of the light water reactor (LWR)PROTEUS experimental program at Paul Scherrer Institute. This paper ...

Amer Nuclear Soc2013

Integrating rate based models into multi-objective optimisation of process designs using surrogate models

François Maréchal, Levent Sinan Teske

Multi-objective optimisation (MOO) of super-structured process designs are expensive in CPU- time because of the high number of potential configurations and operation conditions to be calculated. Thus single process units are generally represented by simpl ...

2013

A wrapper tube for a fuel subassembly of a nuclear reactor core and method for protecting fuel against overheating in case of coolant boiling

Konstantin Mikityuk, Aurélia Chenu, Kaichao Sun

he present invention discloses an innovative design of the sodium-cooled fast reactor subassembly wrapper tube (Figure 1 (b)) and a method for protecting the sodium-cooled fast reactor core against overheating and melting in case of the accidents accompani ...

2013

Bromate catalytic reduction in continuous mode using metal catalysts supported on monoliths coated with carbon nanofibers

Lioubov Kiwi

Nitrogen-doped and un-doped carbon nanofibers layers, denoted as N-CNFs and CNFs respectively, coating the walls of cordierite monoliths have been used as support for Pd and Ru catalyst. They have been tested in bromate reduction in batch and continuous op ...

Elsevier2013

A brief summary of the progress on the EFDA tungsten materials program

Ho Ling Li, Nadine Baluc, Lyubomira Veleva, Antoine Cyril David Hoffmann

The long-term objective of the European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) fusion materials programme is to develop structural and armor materials in combination with the necessary production and fabrication technologies for reactor concepts beyond the In ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Gamma-ray spectrometric measurements of fission rate ratios between fresh and burnt fuel following irradiation in a zero-power reactor

Rakesh Chawla

The gamma-ray activity from short-lived fission products has been measured in fresh and burnt UO2 fuel samples after irradiation in a zero-power reactor. For the first time, short-lived gamma-ray activity from fresh and burnt fuel has been compared and fre ...

Elsevier2013

Optimisation of out-vessel magnetic diagnostics for plasma boundary reconstruction in tokamaks

To improve the low-frequency spectrum of magnetic field measurements of future tokamak reactors such as ITER, several steady-state magnetic sensor technologies have been considered. For all the studied technologies it is always advantageous to place the se ...

2013

Uranium redox transition pathways in acetate-amended sediments

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Elena Suvorova Buffat, Daniel Scott Alessi, Malgorzata Alicja Stylo

Redox transitions of uranium [from U(VI) to U(IV)] in low-temperature sediments govern the mobility of uranium in the environment and the accumulation of uranium in ore bodies, and inform our understanding of Earth's geochemical history. The molecular-scal ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

Assessment of bacterial and structural dynamics in aerobic granular sludge biofilms

Christof Holliger, Yoan Rappaz, David Gregory Weissbrodt

Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) is based on self-granulated flocs forming mobile biofilms with a gel-like consistence. Bacterial and structural dynamics from flocs to granules were followed in anaerobic-aerobic sequencing batch reactors (SBR) fed with synthe ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2013

Multi-Scale Modelling of a Solar Reactor for the High-Temperature Step of a Sulphur-Iodine-Based Water Splitting Cycle

Sophia Haussener, Aldo Steinfeld

The 3-step sulphur-iodine-based thermochemical cycle for splitting water is considered. The high-temperature step consists of the evaporation, decomposition, and reduction of H2SO4 to SO2 using concentrated solar process heat. This step is followed by the ...

ASME2012

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