Twenty five years of operating experience with the Fast Breeder Test Reactor

Kumar, K.V. Suresh; Babu, A.; Srinivasan, Babji

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2011.06.042

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“…From 2007 to 2009, R&D investigations in FHS aim to review design options [4,5], experimental feedback from previous French sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFR) and international reactors [6][7][8][9], and to cross this review analysis with recent innovative options proposed by the scientific community [10][11][12]. This work leads to a first set of innovative preselected options [13] and to determining several axes of R&D development to pursue for ASTRID design options.…”

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Study and Evaluation of Innovative Fuel Handling Systems for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors: Fuel Handling Route Optimization

Dechelette

Morin

Laffont

et al. 2014

Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations

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The research for technological improvement and innovation in sodium-cooled fast reactor is a matter of concern in fuel handling systems in a view to perform a better load factor of the reactor thanks to a quicker fuelling/defueling process. An optimized fuel handling route will also limit its investment cost. In that field, CEA has engaged some innovation study either of complete FHR or on the optimization of some specific components. This paper presents the study of three SFR fuel handling route fully described and compared to a reference FHR option. In those three FHR, two use a gas corridor to transfer spent and fresh fuel assembly and the third uses two casks with a sodium pot to evacuate and load an assembly in parallel. All of them are designed for the ASTRID reactor (1500 MWth) but can be extrapolated to power reactors and are compatible with the mutualisation of one FHS coupled with two reactors. These three concepts are then intercompared and evaluated with the reference FHR according to four criteria: performances, risk assessment, investment cost, and qualification time. This analysis reveals that the “mixed way” FHR presents interesting solutions mainly in terms of design simplicity and time reduction. Therefore its study will be pursued for ASTRID as an alternative option.

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