Nitride fuel for Gen IV nuclear power systems

Innovative Technologies for Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Nuclear Power

At the present stage of development no single energy resource or technology constitutes a panacea toaddress all issues. Therefore, it is necessary that all low-carbon and non-carbon emitting resources become anintegral part of an energy mix – as diversified as possible – to ensure energy security to the world during thepresent century. Available sources are low carbon fossil fuels, ...

Power Systems Without Fuel

The finiteness of fossil fuels implies that future electric power systems may predominantly source energy from fuel-free renewable resources like wind and solar. Evidently, these power systems without fuel will be environmentally benign, sustainable, and subject to milder failure scenarios. Many of these advantages were projected decades ago with the definition of the soft energy path, which de...

Vision systems for inspection of nuclear fuel components

Nuclear fuel assembly consists of large number of components. In a typical 500 MWe Pressurised Heavy Water (PHWR) fuel assembly consists of 1655 components in form of pellets, tubes, spacer pads , bearing pads, endcaps and endplates. As nuclear fuel has to perform under severe operating conditions, customers insist for 100 % inspection of all these components. Human based visual inspection for ...

Systems Design for Nuclear Power Plants

Direct Methanol Fuel Cells for Automotive Power Systems

Direct fuel oxidization yields major fuel cell power system simplifications and potential performance advantages, particularly for an automotive power plant application. The system simplification is particularly striking when a direct fuel system is compared to an “indirect” fuel cell system in a vehicle (where the fuel on board must be “reformed” and “cleaned” to provide a hydrogen-rich gas “r...