(Advanced technologies for water-cooled reactors)

Technical Report · Tue Jul 12 04:00:00 EDT 1988

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6888806· OSTI ID:6888806

Forsberg, C W

The travelers participated in multiple IAEA meetings on fuel improvements and advanced technologies for light water reactors. The meeting in Vienna was a planning meeting to determine what should be done in an Agency-proposed study of many possible improvements to LWR fuel to improve its economics, reliability, and uranium utilization. The scope of reasonable improvements to be studied as recommended by the advisors was much smaller than Agency expectations; our future participation in this study may need to be re-examined after the Agency decides precisely what it hopes to accomplish. The travelers then participated in multiple International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meetings on technologies for water-cooled reactors. At the Technical Committee Meeting, the travelers presented papers and worked with the committee to develop internationally agreed upon definitions and understandings of safety terms for advanced reactors. At the International Working Group Meeting, the travelers worked with the group to plan future IAEA meetings on advanced water-cooled reactor technology. The meetings provided information of the direction and scope of foreign advanced and developmental water-cooled reactor research programs. In particular, a better understanding of the programs in Sweden, Canada, Italy, and Japan was obtained. Work in Canada at Chalk River on a developmental Candu reactor work may be applicable in the United States for a developmental light-water reactor.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/NE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 6888806
• Report Number(s): ORNL/FTR-2916; ON: DE90012276
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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