Materials performance is critical to the safe and economic operation of any nuclear system. As the international community pursues the development of Generation IV reactor concepts and accelerator-dr...
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21 October 2013
Development of innovative fuels such as homogeneous and heterogeneous fuels, ADS fuels, and oxide, metal, nitride and carbide fuels is an important stage in the implementation process of advanced nuc...
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12 December 2014
Future fuel cycle characteristics, feasibility and acceptability will be crucial for the continued development of nuclear energy, especially in the post-Fukushima context. Fuel cycle choices have bot...
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18 July 2013
Regional strategies can provide a useful framework for implementing innovative nuclear fuel cycles. The appropriate sharing of efforts and facilities among different countries is necessary in today’s...
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27 September 2009
Future nuclear fuel cycles could effectively address radioactive waste issues with the implementation of partitioning and transmutation (P&T). Previous studies have defined the infrastructure require...
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3 February 2009
Many countries have been performing a wide range of research on the partitioning and transmutation (P&T) of minor actinides and fission products. The aim is to provide greater flexibility in terms of...
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10 March 2010
Heavy liquid metals such as lead or lead-bismuth have been proposed and investigated as coolants for fast reactors since the 1950s. More recently, there has been renewed interest worldwide in the use...
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11 August 2015
As part of the development of advanced nuclear systems, including accelerator-driven systems (ADS) proposed for high-level radioactive waste transmutation and generation IV reactors, heavy liquid met...
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31 May 2007
NEA/NSC/R(2018)4
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12 December 2018
The implementation of advanced nuclear systems requires that new technologies associated with the back end of the fuel cycle are developed. The separation of minor actinides from other fuel component...
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19 March 2018
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Antwerp, Belgium
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) organised the fourth international workshop on technology and components of accelerator driven systems (TCADS-4). The meeting was held in Antwerp, Belgium on 14-17 Oct...
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21 April 2020
NEA/NSC/R(2018)1
LACANES – Phase II: Natural Convection
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4 April 2018
NEA/NSC/WPFC/DOC(2012)17
LACANES – Phase I: Isothermal forced convection case
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12 June 2012
NEA/NSC/WPFC/DOC(2012)16
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12 June 2012
NEA/NSC/WPFC/DOC(2012)15
Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Flowsheet
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12 June 2012
NEA/NSC/WPFC/DOC(2012)2
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4 January 2012
The fourth international NEA workshop on Technology and Components of Accelerator‑Driven Systems (TCADS‑4), 14‑17 October 2019.
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18 November 2019
NEA/NSC/R(2018)3
To address the objective of the Expert Group on Innovative Structural Materials (EGISM) related to sharing available experimental installations, this report considers the existing facilities, also de...
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7 September 2018
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5 May 2020
Materials research is a field of growing relevance for innovative nuclear systems, such as Generation IV reactors, critical and sub-critical transmutation systems and fusion devices. For these differ...
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31 December 2013
Structural materials research is a field of growing relevance in the nuclear sector, especially for the different innovative reactor systems being developed within the Generation IV International For...
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10 July 2008
Cover for NEA publication number 7133 - Transition Towards a Sustainable Nuclear Fuel Cycle
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2 March 2020
Infographic for WPFC EGFRC SACSESS Database
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4 March 2020
Infographic for WPFC EGISM objectives
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4 March 2020
Infographic for WPFC EGFRC tasks
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4 March 2020
Infographic for things to know about WPFC EGAFCS
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4 March 2020
Infographic for WPFC EGLM objectives
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4 March 2020
Fourth International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovative Nuclear Systems (SMINS-4) – Programme
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3 March 2020
Third International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovative Nuclear Systems (SMINS-3) – Programme
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3 March 2020
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10 October 2013
Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, United States
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) organised the Third International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovative Nuclear Systems (SMINS-3). The workshop was held in Idaho Falls, USA on 7-10 Oct...
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3 March 2020
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3 September 2010
Daejeon, Republic of Korea
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is organising the Second International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovative Nuclear Systems (SMINS-2). The workshop was held in Daejeon, Republic of Korea, ...
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5 March 2020
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6 June 2007
Karlsruhe, Germany
Materials research is a field of growing relevance for innovative nuclear systems, such as Generation IV reactors, critical and sub-critical transmutation systems and fusion devices. For these differ...
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5 March 2020
The task force developed best practice guidelines by performing a benchmark study on thermo-hydraulic modelling of heavy liquid metal coolant, e.g. lead and lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE) alloy.
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28 February 2020
The expert group conducts joint and comparative studies to support the development, selection and characterisation of innovative structural materials that can be implemented in advanced nuclear fuel ...
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28 February 2020
The expert group monitored the feedback from version 0 of the Lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE) handbook, collected, analysed and checked the consistency of expected new results from ongoing heavy liquid m...
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28 February 2020
NEA/NSC/R(2019)3
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Expert Group on Liquid Metal Technology (EGLM) conducted a survey to identify and establish common criteria and understanding on the complex issue of materials data se...
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20 October 2020
The expert group critically reviewed integral experiments for validating minor actinide (MA) nuclear data, recommended additional integral experiments needed for validating MA nuclear data and invest...
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5 March 2021
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15 October 2021
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15 October 2021
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15 October 2021
Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC) meeting, 8 June 2021.
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30 June 2021
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC), the Expert Group on Fuel Recycling and Waste Technology (EGFRW) focuses on the separation processes releva...
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23 February 2022
The Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC) studies advanced nuclear fuel cycles, including fuel cycle scenarios, innovative fuels and materials, separation chemistry, waste...
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24 February 2022
The NEA is organising the 16th Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation (16IEMPT).
Advanced nuclear fuel cycles to improve the safety, sustainabilit...
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17 March 2022
NEA/NSC/R(2016)4
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10 November 2016
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