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Work on scientific issues around advanced nuclear fuel cycles

Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC) meeting, 8 June 2021.

WPFC News brief Fuel studies Nuclear science Nuclear fuel cycle Partitioning and transmutation Fuel cycle physics and chemistry …
Published date: 30 June 2021
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Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS)

The Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) studies the reactor physics, fuel performance, and radiation transport and shielding in present and future nu...

Nuclear fuel Reactor physics Multi-physics simulations Fuel studies Light water reactors Thermal hydraulics WPRS Pressurised heavy water reactors Reactor physics Multiphysics …
Published date: 5 March 2021
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Expert Group on Reactor-based Plutonium Disposition (TFRPD)

The Expert Group on Reactor-based Plutonium Disposition (TFRPD) dealt with the status and trends of reactor physics, fuel performance and fuel cycle issues related to the disposition of weapons-grade...

Reactor physics Fuel studies Nuclear science Plutonium Reactor physics …
Published date: 16 December 2020
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Reactor fuel performance

Understanding fuel performance is a key condition for successful reactor operation. Scientific knowledge in this domain was conceived by experimental tests encoded into software routines to ensure ac...

Reactor physics Fuel studies Nuclear science Reactor physics
Published date: 10 December 2020
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The Relevance of the IFPE Database to the Modelling of WWER-type Fuel Behaviour

The relevance of the IFPE Database to the modelling of WWER-type fuel behaviour, 6th International Conference on WWER Fuel Performance, Modelling and Experimental Support, Albena, Bulgaria, September...

Fuel studies Databases
Published date: 12 October 2020
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NEA and US NRC PWR MOX UO2 Core Transient Benchmark Final Specifications 2003

OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and US Nuclear Regulatory Commission PWR MOX/UO2 Core Transient Benchmark Final Specifications, Revision 2 (2003)

Fuel studies Benchmark
Published date: 9 October 2020
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High Burn-up Fuel in Light Water Reactors (LWRs)

Historically, average discharge burn-ups in light water reactors (LWRs) have steadily increased with time as experience has accumulated and technological developments have progressed. The main benefi...

Fuel studies Nuclear science Light water reactors
Published date: 30 September 2020
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International Fuel Performance Experiments (IFPE) database

International Fuel Performance Experiments (IFPE) is the public domain database on nuclear fuel performance experiments for the purpose of code development and validation.

Fuel studies Nuclear science Experiments EGRPF Databases Ancillary data Reactor physics …
Published date: 19 August 2020
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DATabase for IFpe (DATIF)

DATIF, the DATabase for IFpe, was first developed in 2018 in order to enhance accessibility to the IFPE legacy collection of integral fuel performance experiments data, jointly put together by the NE...

Nuclear fuel Physics Fuel studies NSC EGRFP Databases Ancillary data Reactor physics Integral experiments …
Published date: 23 July 2020
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Thermodynamic Characterisation of Fuel Debris and Fission Products Based on Scenario Analysis of Severe Accident Progression at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (TCOFF)

The TCOFF project provides a framework for the exchange of technical information on topics related to thermodynamic databases available for modelling the fuel/core degradation process, which include ...

Fuel in nuclear safety Fuel studies Nuclear science Fission products Fukushima Accident analysis and management Fuel cycle facility safety Nuclear data Nuclear safety research Ancillary data Safety research Thermodynamics Thermodynamic data Fuel cycle physics and chemistry Accident management …
Published date: 16 April 2020