Status of French reactors

Conference · Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997

OSTI ID:567620

Ballagny, A ^[1]

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1. Commissariat a l`Energie Atomique, Saclay (France)

The status of French reactors is reviewed. The ORPHEE and RHF reactors can not be operated with a LEU fuel which would be limited to 4.8 g U/cm{sup 3}. The OSIRIS reactor has already been converted to LEU. It will use U{sub 3}Si{sub 2} as soon as its present stock of UO{sub 2} fuel is used up, at the end of 1994. The decision to close down the SILOE reactor in the near future is not propitious for the start of a conversion process. The REX 2000 reactor, which is expected to be commissioned in 2005, will use LEU (except if the fast neutrons core option is selected). Concerning the end of the HEU fuel cycle, the best option is reprocessing followed by conversion of the reprocessed uranium to LEU.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• OSTI ID: 567620
• Report Number(s): ANL/RERTR/TM-20; CONF-9409107-; ON: DE98000036; TRN: 98:003327
• Resource Relation: Conference: International meeting on reduced enrichment for research and test reactors, Williamsburg, VA (United States), 18-22 Sep 1994; Other Information: PBD: Aug 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 1994 international meeting on reduced enrichment for research and test reactors; PB: 427 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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22 NUCLEAR REACTOR TECHNOLOGY
ORPHEE REACTOR
OSIRIS REACTOR
SILOE REACTOR
FUEL SUBSTITUTION
URANIUM SILICIDES
MODERATELY ENRICHED URANIUM
FRANCE