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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: