The Liquid-Salt-Cooled Very High-Temperature Reactor (LS-VHTR) was modeled using the neutronics analysis code SCALE6.0 and thermal-hydraulics kinetics modeling RELAP5-3D with objective to devise, analyze, evaluate feasibility stability of a start-up procedure for this reactor natural circulation coolant under Loss Of Offsite Power (LOOP) conditions. This Generation IV design has been initially ...

Abstract In developing the PeLUIt 150 MW nuclear power plant based on High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) technology, with helium-coolant and output thermal of MW, simulator is also developed for training operators educating other technical personnel. Referred to balance (BOP) design PeLUIt, utilized vPower simulation platform simulate secondary loop generation a water-steam Rankine cycl...

R & D Journal of the South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering 2012,28,25-30 http://www.saimeche.org.za (open access) © SAIMechE All rights reserved. 25 The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) is a Generation IV graphite-moderated helium cooled nuclear reactor developed in South Africa from the German Arbeitsgemeinschaft Versuchreaktor (AVR). After decommissioning of the AVR plant, radi...

An integrated multi-physics simulation capability for the design and analysis of current and future nuclear reactor models is being investigated, to tightly couple neutron transport and thermal-hydraulics physics under the SHARP framework. Over several years, high-fidelity, validated mono-physics solvers with proven scalability on petascale architectures have been developed independently. Based...

Semi-static dissolution tests using pressurized water reactor spent fuel rod segments and NNWSI reference J-13 well water 1n sealed stainless steel vessels at 85*C are being conducted In support of the Waste Package Task of the NNWSI Project. Test specimens include: bare fuel plus the empty cladding hulls, fuel rod segments with artificially induced cladding defects and water-tight end caps, an...

The plasma polymer films were prepared in the Typical Modular Reactor (TMR). Two modules of this reactor with different geometry were used – parallel plate electrode arrangement and tubular arrangement. The homogeneity in thickness and the same chemical structure were found in the former case in the area of the substrate plane, corresponding to the size of the excitation electrode. In the latte...