Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (SFR)
Neutron flux monitoring with in-vessel fission chambers to detect an inadvertent control rod withdrawal in a sodium-cooled fast reactor
... MWth sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) designed at CEA [3] is used for our ...by reactor core description, choice of detectors and their location in Section ...
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Loss of off-site power transient analysis for a sodium-cooled fast reactor equipped with a gas power conversion system and preliminary optimisation of its operation
... Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (SFR), gas Power Conversion System (PCS), Loss Of Off-site Power (LOOP), Multiobjective Optimisation Problem ...develops Sodium-cooled Fast ...
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Evaluation of cobalt free coatings as hardfacing material candidates in sodium-cooled fast reactor and effect of oxygen in sodium on the tribological behaviour
... operating Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors (SFRs) has shown the importance of material tribological ...the reactor leading to complex management of safety during reactor maintenance and ...
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Optimization of a sodium-cooled fast reactor operation with a gas power conversion system during a loss of off-site power
... develops Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors (SFR) as industrial-scale demonstrators mainly guided by safety and operability ...SFR reactor associated to a nitrogen closed Brayton cycle for the Power ...
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large electro-magnetic pump conceptual design for the astrid sodium-cooled fast reactor
... ASTRID, Sodium Fast Reactor ...–generation Sodium-cooled fast reactor (GENIV) concepts selected to secure the nuclear fuel resources and to manage radioactive ...
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Degraded core relocation in Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor severe accident $-$ particle-size debris flow
... reactors, Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors (SFR) are chosen as reference systems due to the most extensive industrial experience and operational feedback available for this ...ASTRID reactor, an ...
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Multi-objective optimization of sub-assemblies design towards static mechanical equilibrium of sodium-cooled fast reactor core
... INTRODUCTION The core design of Sodium cooled Fast Reactors uses sub-assembly ducts to support fuel elements. The positions of the core assemblies and their mechanical interaction have to be ...
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Teaching Sodium Fast Reactor Technology and Operation for the Present and Future Generations of SFR Users
... of Sodium Fast Reactor Develop- ment in France The very first tests conducted by the CEA using liquid metals date back to ...of sodium- cooled fast reactor (SFR) ...three ...
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Development of electro-magnetic pump for the astrid sodium-cooled fast reactor
... (Sodium Fast Reactor) prototype called ASTRID (Advance Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration), the large capacity Electro- Magnetic Pumps (EMP) as main circulating ...
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Supercritical CO$_2$ cycle coupling to sodium cooled fast reactors recent R&D achievements at CEA
... To start, the attractive thermodynamical performance of a sCO 2 condensing cycle is reported in section 2 for SFRs conditions. 2. THERMODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE FOR AN SFR APPLICATION In CYCLOP (CYCLe OPtimisation) [13], the ...
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Challenges and Innovative Technologies On Fuel Handling Systems for Future Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors
... in sodium-cooled fast reactors over the past 40 years of R&D and feedback ...the reactor design. The reactor refuelling system provides the means of transporting, storing, and ...
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Considerations on GEN IV safety goals and how to implement them in future sodium-cooled fast reactors
... 5.1.Mitigation or practical elimination of the core melt accident ? To demonstrate that whole core melt cannot occur would be an interesting way if one could rely on its physical impossibility or a demonstration of ...
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Study and Evaluation of Innovative Fuel Handling Systems for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors: Fuel Handling Route Optimization
... the fast reactor database and recent technological development in SFR ...between reactor vessel and external storage, and also, in the particular case of fuel handling through gas corridor, fuel ...
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Impact of neutronics parameters in a loss-of-flow transient simulation of a low-void sodium-cooled nuclear reactor
... in Fast Reactor Neutronic Transport ...on Fast Reactors and Related Fuel Cycles ...integral fast reactor concept: physics of operation and ...
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New Reference APOLLO3 Calculation Scheme for Sodium Cooled Fast Reactors from Sub-Assembly to Full-Core Calculations
... 4. CONCLUSION AND PERSPECTIVES In this paper, our new reference sub-assembly to core calculation scheme for Sodium Fast Reactor, called APOLLO3-SFR, has been presented. Each one of those two steps ...
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Characterization, simulation and improvement of spacer pads mechanical behaviour for sodium fast reactor fuel subassemblies
... ABSTRACT CEA is currently working on a new prototype of Sodium cooled Fast Reactor, ASTRID, which must demonstrate strong safety level. Spacer pads, which are small bosses stamped through ...
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Passive Acoustic Leak Detection for Sodium Cooled Fast Reactors Using Hidden Markov Models
... However, given the complexity of acoustic signals it is unlikely that detailed leak noise knowledge can be easily credited when designing a system for a new plant. Even the normal background noise of a new plant will not ...
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A new discriminating high temperature fission chamber filled with xenon designed for sodium-cooled fast reactors
... 4.2. Neutrons Fission chambers are used to monitor the neutron flux in a nuclear reactor, and therefore give an indication of the reactor power. While the replacement of argon by xenon led to a marked ...
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Study of isolation valve for sodium fast reactor
... Valve, Sodium, Isolation 1. Introduction The ASTRID (Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration) project is a technological integration prototype intended for the ...
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In service inspection and repair of the sodium cooled ASTRID reactor prototype
... the reactor block, fluids, positioning and maintenance ...future sodium-cooled fast reactor prototype called ASTRID, France has launched a large R&D program 1 on in-service ...
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