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Advanced Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles
Objectives:
- Maintaining the competence in advanced reactors area;
- Evaluation of different scenarios for building new reactors based on the future demand on energy;
- Improving the competence for participating in international joint activities in the field of advanced reactors.
Research perspectives:
- Evaluation of the international general evolution characteristics and of technical tendencies in the nuclear reactors field;
- Characteristic evaluation of advanced fuel cycles of potential interest in heavy water reactors;
- Evaluation of world-wide proposed solutions for actinides burning in nuclear reactors;
- Development of methods and computer codes for the evaluation of characteristics of reactor core with advanced fuel and of different types of advanced Cernavoda type reactors;
- Physics and thermo-hydraulic development of calculation models for advanced reactors. Physics and thermo-hydraulic evaluation of advanced rectors core characteristics.
Main results of research:
- Evaluation of SEU 37-rods fuel cycles on PHWR reactors;
- Evaluation of SEU 43-rods fuel cycles;
- Evaluation of recent evolution in the field of advanced nuclear reactors.
Contact: CS II Ilie PATRULESCU;
e-mail: ilie.patrulescu@nuclear.ro
Last update: 22.04.2010 |
