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Generation II reactor

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Electron-cyclotron-current-drive efficiency in DEMO plasmas

Laurie Porte, Emiliano Fable

The achievable efficiency for external current drive through electron-cyclotron waves in a demonstration tokamak reactor is investigated. Two possible reactor designs, one for steady state and one for pulsed operation, are considered. Beam propagation, abs ...

Int Atomic Energy Agency2013

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

Nadine Baluc, Ho Ling Li, 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

Neutronics Experiments and Analysis Related to Strong Moderation Heterogeneity in LWRs

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

Analysis of Advanced Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor Core Designs with Improved Safety Characteristics

In order to meet the steadily increasing worldwide energy demand, nuclear power is expected to continue playing a key role in electricity production. Currently, the large majority of nuclear power plants are operated with thermal-neutron spectra and need r ...

EPFL2012

Effective interfacial area for mass transfer in the liquid-liquid slug flow capillary microreactors

Madhvanand Namadeo Kashid

Liquid-liquid biphasic reactions play an important role in the chemical and pharmaceutical Industries The liquid-liquid slug flow capillary microreactor offers considerable potential benefits over the conventional liquid-liquid contactors Though the hydrod ...

2010

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

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

Estimation of the fast neutron fluence at control rod tips using a 3-D diffusion/2-D transport multi-step calculation scheme

Rakesh Chawla, Hakim Ferroukhi

This paper presents the development and application of a methodology to estimate, using conventional deterministic lattice/core analysis methods, the fast neutron fluence at the tips of control rods inserted during operation in PWR reactors. The developed ...

Elsevier Ltd2009

Development of the control assembly pattern and dynamic analysis of the generation IV large gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR)

Gaëtan Girardin

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

Development and application of an advanced fuel model for the safety analysis of the generation IV gas-cooled fast reactor

Until about the year 2030, current-day nuclear power plants (NPPs) will be replaced by so-called Gen-III or Gen-III+ units, which are mainly based on light water reactor technology. The principal new features are increased safety and improved economical ef ...

EPFL2008