Status Report on Structural Materials for Advanced Nuclear Systems
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Grenoble (France)
- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Oarai (Japan)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)
- Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland)
- ENEA
- CNAM
- Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Since 2000, most of the advanced nuclear systems have been developing under the framework of the international research and development community, the Generation IVInitiative (GIF), which aims to develop future nuclear systems with high-safety features and economics, enhanced resource-use and a minimum level of waste production. Six systems have been selected for Generation IV consideration: gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR), very-high temperature reactor (VHTR), sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR), molten salt reactor (MSR) and supercritical-water-cooled reactor (SCWR). In addition to the GIF, another possible future system is the accelerator-driven system (ADS), which uses subcritical core with the spallation target mainly cooled by lead. This system could be deployed at double-strata nuclear fuel cycle as a dedicated burner.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- OECD-NEA
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- OSTI ID:
- 1097679
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--13-28251
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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