European lead fast reactor—ELSY

An alternative solution for heavy liquid metal cooled reactors fuel assemblies

“…The back-up ELSY core configuration (Alemberti et al, 2011), where HFAs are used, has been selected as reference solution for the present evaluations. The reference core model is reported in Fig.…”

“…Horizontal(Alemberti et al, 2011) and vertical views of the ELSY core with HFAs. (For interpretation of the references to color in this sentence, the reader is referred to the web version of the article.)…”

New steam generation system for lead-cooled fast reactors, based on steam re-circulation through ejector

“…Within the Generation IV nuclear reactors projects [1][2][3][4][5], the interest in lead-cooled fast reactors design is increasing also in Italy [6][7][8]; presently, important Italian societies as Ansaldo Nucleare and ENEA are engaged in the development of the conceptual design of ALFRED (Advanced Lead-cooled Fast Reactor Demonstrator) demonstration facility.…”

A novel generalized diffusive SPH model: Theoretical analysis and 3D HPC implementation

“…Along this line, the most popular coolant is the liquid Sodium. However, due to the high reactivity of the liquid Sodium with air and water, much less reactive liquid lead based coolants are becoming considered as well (see among others Gromov et al (1997) and Alemberti et al (2011b)). …”

“…In Fig. 7.1, the complete ELSY reactor geometry is shown (see Alemberti et al (2011b) and Alemberti et al (2011a)), which is in fact one of the geometries considered in the SILER EU project (see Forni and De Grandis (2012)). On top of such geometry, a 3D simplified model has been generated, depicted in Fig.…”