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Neutronics Experiments and Analysis Related to Strong Moderation Heterogeneity in LWRs

Dominik Rätz

The Supercritical-Water-Cooled Reactor (SCWR) is the Generation IV reactor concept most closely related to current light water reactors (LWRs). The SCWR builds on the vast experience with today's LWRs and supercritical coal-fired power plants. Water at sup ...

EPFL2012

Assessment of a new fabrication route for Fe-9Cr-1W ODS cladding tubes

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron

Oxide Dispersion Strengthened ferritic/martensitic steels are developed as future cladding materials for Generation IV Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors. ODS alloys are elaborated by powder metallurgy, consolidated by hot extrusion and manufactured into tube cla ...

2012

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The end-of-life (EOL) tests recently performed at the Phenix reactor present a unique opportunity to validate computational tools used for Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) static and transient analysis. In the first part of the current study, PSI's FAST co ...

Elsevier2012

The generation IV gas-cooled fast reactor

Manuel Alexandre Pouchon, Konstantin Mikityuk

The gas cooled fast reactor (GFR) is a helium-cooled fast spectrum reactor operating within a closed fuel cycle. It combines the advantages of fast reactors, in terms of a more sustainable use of uranium resources and waste minimisation, with the wider app ...

Societe Francaise d'Energie Nucleaire2011

Nuclear power is nowadays in the front rank as regards helping to meet the growing worldwide energy demand while avoiding an excessive increase in greenhouse gas emissions. However, the operating nuclear power plants are mainly thermal-neutron reactors and ...

EPFL2011

Review on the EFDA work programme on nano-structured ODS RAF steels

Nadine Baluc, Zbigniew Oksiuta, Bertrand Fournier

The 2008-2009 work programme of the European research project on nano-structured oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) reduced activation ferritic (RAF) steels is being organized along the four following programmatic lines: (1) improve the present generation ...

Elsevier2011

Improvement of the Decay Heat Removal Characteristics of the Generation IV Gas-cooled Fast Reactor

Aaron Simon Epiney

Gas cooling in nuclear power plants (NPPs) has a long history, the corresponding reactor types developed in France, the UK and the US having been thermal neutron-spectrum systems using graphite as the moderator. The majority of NPPs worldwide, however, are ...

EPFL2010

Heavy-gas injection in the Generation IV gas-cooled fast reactor for improved decay heat removal under depressurized conditions

Rakesh Chawla, Konstantin Mikityuk, Aaron Simon Epiney

Decay heat removal is a key safety and design issue for the Generation IV gas (helium)-cooled fast reactor. This paper investigates the natural convection capability of the dedicated DHR loops under depressurized conditions while injecting a heavy gas into ...

Elsevier2010

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Several gas-loop experimental programs were carried out during the 1970-1980s at the Eidgenossisches Institut fur Reaktorforschung (EIR, now PSI), Switzerland. In the present work, a wide range of thermalhydraulics tests for smooth rods, which form part of ...

Elsevier2010

During the past ten years, different independent factors, such as the rapidly increasing worldwide demand in energy, societal concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, and the high and volatile prices for fossil fuels, have contributed to the renewed intere ...

EPFL2009