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Current status of the engineering design of the test modules for the IFMIF

Under Broader Approach (BA) Agreement between EURATOM and Japan, IFMIF/EVEDA (International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility/Engineering Validation and Engineering Design Activities) has been performed since the middle of 2007. IFMIF presents three ma ...

Elsevier Science Sa2013

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

A novel design approach for a neutron measurement station for burnt fuel

Rakesh Chawla, Mathieu Hursin

The design and characterization of a passive neutron measurement station for highly burnt fuel has been undertaken at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). The measurement station aims at the determination of the total neutron emission rate of full-length lig ...

Elsevier2012

Analysis of selected Phenix EOL tests with the FAST code system - Part II: Unprotected phase of the Natural Convection Test

Rakesh Chawla, Konstantin Mikityuk, Aurélia Chenu

Experimental results from the unprotected phase of the Natural Convection (NC) Test performed in the Phenix reactor in the frame of end-of-life (EOL) experiments have been used to qualify the FAST code system for Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) transient ...

Elsevier2012

Innovative production of nuclear fuel by microwave internal gelation: Heat transfer model of falling droplets

Manuel Alexandre Pouchon, Cédric Cozzo

Based on closed packed microspheres produced by internal gelation, the Sphere-pac concept provides a safer and cleaner process and better remote production capability compared to the traditional production of nuclear fuels. Whereas classical reactor fuel r ...

Elsevier2012

Progress of fusion nuclear technologies in the broader approach framework

Nadine Baluc

In the Broader Approach framework, the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility/Engineering Validation and Engineering Design Activities (IFMIF/EVEDA) project, the International Fusion Energy Research Center (IFERC) project, and the Satellite To ...

Elsevier Science Sa2012

TRACE and TRAC-BF1 Benchmark Against Leibstadt Data During the Event Inadvertent Opening of Relief Valves

Damar Canggih Wicaksono

In framework of introducing TRACE code to transient analyses system codes for Leibstadt Power Plant (KKL), a conversion process of existing TRAC-BF1 model to TRACE has been started within KKL. In the first step, TRACE thermal-hydraulic model for KKL has be ...

American Nuclear Society2012

Recent progress in blanket materials development in the Broader Approach activities

Nadine Baluc

As a part of the Broader Approach activities, R&D on blanket related materials, reduced-activation ferritic martensitic (RAFM) steels as a structural material, SiCf/SiC composites for flow channel insert in the liquid blanket and/or use as advanced structu ...

Elsevier2011

Void reactivity decomposition for the Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor in equilibrium fuel cycle

Rakesh Chawla, Konstantin Mikityuk, Jiri Krepel, Kaichao Sun

The Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) is one of the most promising Generation IV systems with many advantages, but has one dominating neutronic drawback - a positive sodium void reactivity. The aim of this study is to develop and apply a methodology, which ...

Elsevier2011

Coupling a System Code with Computational Fluid Dynamics for the Simulation of Complex Coolant Reactivity Effects

Davide Bertolotto

The current doctoral research is focused on the development and validation of a coupled computational tool, to combine the advantages of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in analyzing complex flow fields and of state-of-the-art system codes employed for n ...

EPFL2011

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