The Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor (ALMR) Actinide Recycle System is being developed in the United States for application early in the 21st century. The ALMR is a major part of this system and has missions beginning with near-term (10 years), medium term (15-20 years), and long-term (beyond 20 years) horizons. These missions use the same reactor design with modifications only to the reactor core...

Recent advances in supercomputers and parallel solver techniques have enabled users to run large simulations problems using millions of processors. Techniques for multiphysics nuclear reactor core simulations are under active development in several countries. Most of these techniques require large unstructured meshes that can be hard to generate in a standalone desktop computers because of high...

The largest experience in operating nuclear power plants has been in nuclear naval propulsion, particularly aircraft carriers and submarines. This accumulated experience may become the basis of a proposed new generation of compact-sized nuclear power plants designs. The mission for nuclear powered submarines is being redefined in terms of signal intelligence gathering and special operations. Th...

Abstract The article is devoted to the issues of nuclear energy. It considers a simplified dynamic model simulating main processes in power plant, including heat generation reactor. basis proposed release reactor, relative neutron and temperature coolant hot thread circulation circuit.

The 2003-2004 activity of Reactor Integral Test WG under Subcommittee on Reactor Constants of Japanese Nuclear Data Committee will be presented. During this period, the WG carried out integral tests of JENDL-3.3, ENDF/B-VI and JEFF 3.0 for reactor applications. Some results of integral tests for other latest libraries, JEFF-3.1, ENDF/B-VII, etc. will be also presented. Nuclear Data Library in D...

Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced Reactor Engineering and Safety of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; panyf15@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn (Y.P.); zyzhang@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn (Z.Z.); dongyj@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn (Y.D.); huangxj@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn (X.H.) * C...

General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy. Since 1988 he has been active in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), firstly, as a member of the ITER Managing Committee and later as the Russian representative on many ITER-related inter-governmental boards. In 1996, he was appointed Head of the Department of Science ...

The periodic or non-periodic test and maintenance activities in nuclear power plants (NPPs) are essential for stable power production and the sustainment of the plant safety. However, due to NPP system complexity and human limitation in cognition and action, these activities may also have the potential to induce unwanted and unanticipated reactor trip events and may render critical systems unav...

The Nigeria Research Reactor-1 (NIRR-1) is the nation’s first nuclear reactor and it is sited at the Centre for Energy Research and Training, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. It is a Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MNSR) that attained criticality on February 03, 2004 and was licensed to operate at a maximum power of 31 kW three days a week in June 01, 2004. This presentation enumerate...