NucDes'14

Nuclear Design 2014

Full design study of a

small long-life HTR

Nuclear Design, How To ?

Contact : Alexis Nuttin

• 4 subjects (cf. articles at bottom of this page)

  • 2013 article parts a and b, 2014a article, 2014b article

  • Each subject is studied and presented by only one group

• Understanding and synthesis work in group

  • During our brainstorming sessions and outside

  • Questions to ask by e-mail (first to contact then to author)

• Send documents by e-mail before october 16

  • Slides in pdf, w/o animation (2 max. per person)

  • Abstract in 800 words max. (in pdf, 2 pages max.)

Unique session (october 20)

2013 article (parts a & b)

M. Ding and J.L. Kloosterman, Thermal-hydraulic design and transient evaluation of a small long-life HTR, Nucl. Eng. Design 255, 347-358 (2013).

2013 article, part a : core description and N/TH methodology (sections 1 to 4)

Alexia, Mathieu, Thomas

2013 article, part b : incident analysis of cylindrical and annular cores (section 5 to 8)

Clément, Qi, Yaguang

2014a article

M. Ding and J.L. Kloosterman, Thorium utilization in a small long-life HTR, Part I: Th/U MOX fuel blocks, Nucl. Eng. Design 267, 238-244 (2014).

Anna-Chiara, Elisabetta, Francesco, Rawan

2014b article

M. Ding and J.L. Kloosterman, Thorium utilization in a small long-life HTR, Part II: Seed-and-blanket fuel blocks, Nucl. Eng. Design 267, 245-252 (2014).

Alicia, Sylvain, Victor