HTR Fuel Development in Europe

Conference · Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2002

OSTI ID:21167951

Languille, Alain ^[1]; Conrad, R ^[2]; Guillermier, P ^[3]; Nabielek, H ^[4]; Bakker, K ^[5]; Abram, T ^[6]; Haas, D ^[7]

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1. CEA Cadarache, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance BP1 (France)
2. CEC/JRC/IE Petten (Netherlands)
3. Framatome-ANP/ Lyon (France)
4. FZJ/Juelich (Germany)
5. NRG/Petten (Netherlands)
6. BNFL UK (United Kingdom)
7. JRC/ITU/Karlsruhe (Germany)

In the frame of the European Network HTR-TN and in the 5. EURATOM RTD Framework Programme (FP5) European programmes have been launched to consolidate advanced modular HTR technology in Europe. This paper gives an overall description and first results of this programme. The major tasks covered concern a complete recovery of the past experience on fuel irradiation behaviour in Europe, qualification of HTR fuel by irradiating of fuel elements in the HFR reactor, understanding of fuel behaviour with the development of a fuel particle code and finally a recover of the fuel fabrication capability. (authors)

• Research Organization: American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
• OSTI ID: 21167951
• Resource Relation: Conference: ICAPP'02: 2002 International congress on advances in nuclear power plants, Hollywood, FL (United States), 9-13 Jun 2002; Other Information: Country of input: France; 4 refs
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
EURATOM
EUROPE
FABRICATION
FUEL ELEMENTS
FUEL PARTICLES
HFR REACTOR
IRRADIATION
NUCLEAR FUELS