... reactors Nuclear engineering Nuclear safety Plant operations Research reactors Plant engineering Plant modifications Plant life cycle Security Maintenance In high-temperature reactors (HTR), the uranium dioxide particles are surrounded with three layers: a pyrolytic carbon layer at first...

... reactors Nuclear engineering Plant operations Research reactors Plant engineering Plant modifications Plant life cycle Maintenance A simplified configuration and an efficient cycle for nuclear power plants (NPPs) are necessary for generation IV (Gen IV) development in order to deliver low...

... 03 2018 Fuel cycle Next generation reactors Nuclear fuels Nuclear safety Research reactors Radioactive waste management Decommissioning Materials Security In the fission-based nuclear reactors, the heat energy is produced by the fission reaction at the reactor core...

.... Editor: Igor Pioro. 09 10 2016 08 12 2017 Fusion Engineering Next generation reactors Nuclear safety Research reactors Thermal hydraulics Security Lithium lead ceramic breeder (LLCB) test blanket module (TBM) is one of the TBM concepts for test in International...

... to produce hydrogen. A nuclear air-Brayton cycle (described herein) is the most efficient method to convert hydrogen to electricity. This combination creates new options for using hydrogen for energy storage. Alternative energy sources Plant operations Research reactors Small Modular Reactors...

... Porcheron. 24 04 2017 18 09 2017 Radiation science Research reactors Radiation protection Transporting irradiated fuel element (FE) under water surface in an open-pool-type reactor is a routine process, and it needs precautions and conservative procedures. In an open pool type...

... operation data before the earthquake. If the graphite block in reactor core is damaged by the earthquake, flow channel is blocked by the fragments of graphite blocks. Therefore, the pressure difference of the core was compared with the past data. Next generation reactors Nuclear safety Research...

...Igor Pioro, Ph.D., Dr. Tech. Sc., P.Eng.; Andrey Churkin, Ph.D.; Laurence Leung, Ph.D. 20 10 2017 22 10 2017 Advanced reactors Current reactors Next generation reactors Nuclear education Nuclear engineering Research reactors Thermal hydraulics Public acceptance Nuclear...

.... Advanced reactors Fusion Engineering Nuclear engineering Research reactors Thermal hydraulics Standards Licensing Regulatory issues Codes Copyright © 2017 by ASME 2017 2332-8983/2017/3(4)/041009/13/ $25.00 ...

.../ndtnet/2009/bertoncini.pdf [19] Todreas , N. E. , and Kazimi , M. S. , 2011 , Nuclear Systems I , 2nd ed. , CRC Press , Boca Raton, FL . 29 09 2016 24 06 2017 Current reactors Instrumentation Nuclear engineering Plant operations Plant systems Research reactors...

... June 1, 2017; published online July 31, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Guoqiang Wang. 29 09 2016 01 06 2017 Plant Systems Research reactors Systems reliability Construction Structures Components Systems performance Japan Atomic Energy Agency has carried out research...

... 2017 30 06 2017 Instrumentation Control Next generation reactors Nuclear engineering Research reactors Small Modular Reactors Sliding Electrical systems Nowadays, the fast reactor R&D domain has known important improvements, due mainly to the goals proposed by Gen IV...

..., and indications of the first two. Achieving these three functions will be called a “safe path.” The Israel Research Reactor 2 (IRR2) has numerous diverse safe paths to ensure the availability of these three safety functions. Each safe path has an associated level of resistance to ground acceleration. A project...

... assurance (QA) important to safety. PSA has mostly been used in the nuclear power industry, but in recent years it has also started to be incorporated in research reactor (RR) safety analysis, and we therefore cover the subject of PSA usage for this purpose as well. Manuscript received July 18, 2016...

... October 13, 2016; published online March 1, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Ralph Hill. 10 10 2015 13 10 2016 Next generation reactors Nuclear engineering Plant operations Plant systems Research reactors Small Modular Reactors Systems reliability Plant engineering Plant modifications...

...Michal Koleška; Michal Šunka; Jaroslav Ernest A spectrometric system was developed for spent fuel burnup evaluations at the LVR-15 research reactor, which employed highly enriched (36%) IRT-2M-type fuel. Such a system allows the measurement of fission product axial distribution by measuring certain...

...Zdena Lahodová; Witolda Soukupová; Michal Koleška; Jaroslav Ernest; Jelena Zmítková This paper describes the design and use of a new irradiation facility for the LVR-15 nuclear research reactor. The CHOUCA MT irradiation rig was produced in France according to a design of the ÚJV Group (ÚJV Řež...

... August 9, 2016; published online December 20, 2016. Assoc. Editor: Juan-Luis Francois. 30 9 2015 9 8 2016 9 8 2016 Research reactors The issue of thermal neutron transport in iron is important not only in the frames of a reactor pressure vessel (RPV) or reactor internals...

... received May 31, 2016; published online December 20, 2016. Assoc. Editor: Emmanuel Porcheron. 21 10 2015 31 5 2016 1 6 2016 Advanced reactors Research reactors Standards Licensing Regulatory issues Codes The HTTR [1] is a block-type HTGR. Since the first...

... 22 7 2016 Next generation reactors Nuclear engineering Research reactors Thermal hydraulics The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has carried out research and development to establish the technical basis of HTGRs using the HTTR [ 1 ]. The nuclear heat utilization plants connected...