Gas-cooled fast reactors (GFR)
Parameterstudien an gasgekühlten schnellen Reaktoren. EUR 770. = Parameter studies on gas-cooled fast reactors. EUR 770.
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Interim Status Report on the Design of the Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor (GFR)
... The fast reactor experience with the LMR and ALMR indicated a need for a spent fuel cool down approach different from the approach taken by the ...of gas cooled fast reactors, the ...
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C-14 Production in Lead-Cooled Reactors
... for fast neutron systems since the beginning of nuclear fuel development owing to their suitable ...IV reactors, such as the LFR, the GFR (Gas-cooled Fast Reactor) or the SFR ...
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Improvement of the Decay Heat Removal Characteristics of the Generation IV Gas-cooled Fast Reactor
... generation gas-cooled reactors _____________________________ 4 ...Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors (AGRs) ___________________________ 5 ...Temperature Gas-cooled ...
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Reanalysis of the Gas-cooled fast reactor experiments at the zero power facility Proteus – Spectral indices
... in gas-cooled fast reactors (GCFRs), however, dated back to the 1970’s and, at the time, the neutronics of early GCFR designs was investigated experimentally in the PROTEUS zero power reactor ...
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A History of Dosimetry for the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors
... A number of facilities allow the user to assess the statistical reliability of the results: scoring interim results; checking for undue increases in variance or variance of variance; scoring weight distributions of ...
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Degradation of graphite in gas cooled reactors due to radiolytic oxidation.
... The neutron dose increases progressively with the operating time of the reactor. The graphite core looses mass as a result of radiolytic oxidation. The process is dependent on both total energy deposition and temperature ...
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Physical characteristics of large fast-neutron sodium-cooled reactors with advanced nitride and metallic fuels
... improves greatly the reactor safety during self-operation of the burnup compensators in beyond-design-basis accidents. The sodium underlayer in metallic fuel elements requires that gas collectors to be installed ...
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COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO GAS-COOLED TRU BURNER SUBCRITICAL REACTORS: FUSION-FISSION AND ADS
... two gas cooled subcritical fast reactor as dedicated transuranics (TRU) transmuters: using a spallation neutron source or a D-T fusion neutron source based on ...lead cooled ADS may show ...
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Characterization and localization of partial-discharge-induced pulses in fission chambers designed for sodium-cooled fast reactors
... Results presented in this paper demonstrate firstly that it is difficult to discriminate between neutron detection signals and signals from partial discharges using the analysis FWHM for the case of the larger fission ...
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Wave propagation simulation in the upper core of sodium-cooled fast reactors using a spectral-element method for heterogeneous media
... of gas bubbles caused by flows occurs above core sub-assemblies during operation of reactor from studies [9, 25, ...of gas density and temperature gradient on a wave propagation have been researched [20, ...
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Single- and Two-Phase Flow Modeling for Coupled Neutronics/Thermal-Hydraulics Transient Analysis of Advanced Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors
... quantify accident consequences as measured by the transient behavior of system performance parameters, such as fuel and cladding temperatures, reactivity, and cladding strain. In spatial terms, each SAS4A/SASSYS-1 ...
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Control rod monitoring of advanced gas-cooled reactors
... The UK’s fleet of Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors (AGR) are approaching, and have in some cases exceeded, their original design lives. Continued operation is under enhanced safety cases based on ...
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Investigating High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors for Research Applications
... An essential factor in HTGRs becoming a reality, both as means of energy production and research reactors is public acceptance. General opinion of nuclear power has historically been very skeptical and negative, ...
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A REVIEW OF HELIUM GAS TURBINE TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH-TEMPERATURE GAS-COOLED REACTORS
... HTGR gas turbine due to its radio- active stability and high thermal ...helium gas turbine design follows the existing design practice for combustion gas turbines, there are obvious differences ...
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Development of Structural and Steam Generator Materials for Sodium Cooled Fast Reactors
... Abstract Nitrogen-alloyed low-carbon grade type 316L(N) SS is the principal material for high temperature structural components of the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR). Creep, and low cycle fatigue (LCF) ...
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Modelling flow inside the fuel assembly of the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors.
... Figure 4. Example of the scalability of Code_Saturne. RESULTS Two calculations are presented in this paper. The first one computes the flow inside the fuel assembly in normal operating conditions and is used as basis for ...
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Review of safety improvement on sodium cooled fast reactors after Fukushima accident
... sembly on a stand-by in a fully out condition [8,9]. 2.2. French Approach In France, there is a plan to build the ASTRID reactor illustrated in Figure 3. The ASTRID design studies, full scale compartment testing, ...
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The Safety of Steam Cooled Fast Reactors as Influenced by the Design and Arrangement of their Components EUR 3688
... and the safety of a steam cooled fast reactor is particular- ly dependent on the design and the arrangement of the.. cooling cycle and its components.[r] ...
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Proceedings of the Conference Fuel Cycles of High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors EUR 2780
... ORNL is building the Thorium-Uranium Recycle Facilities (TURF) to demonstrate the refabrication technology. In conclusion, first results for reprocessing and refabrication are encouragi[r] ...
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