OVERVIEW AND PROGRESS IN THE EUROPEAN PROJECT: „SUPERCRITICAL WATER REACTOR – FUEL QUALIFICATION TEST“

Design and licensing of an experimental facility for a fuel qualification test, including a small scale fuel assembly, the required coolant loop with supercritical water and safety and auxiliary systems, is the scope of the project “Supercritical Water Reactor – Fuel Qualification Test” (SCWR-FQT) described here. This project is a collaborative project co-funded by the European Commission, which takes advantage of a Chinese – European collaboration, in which China offers an electrically heated out-of-pile loop for testing of fuel bundles. The results of these out-of-pile tests on an electrically heated, but otherwise identical, fuel assembly shall be used as a pre-qualification experiment as well as for providing data for CFD and system codes validation. As the next step, it has been proposed to carry out the fuel qualification test in a research reactor in the Czech republic under prototypical conditions.

RUZICKOVA M.;  SCHULENBERG T.;  VISSER D.;  MARACZY C.;  TOIVONEN Aki;  KISS A.;  NOVOTNY Radek; 

2014-09-29

Canadian Nuclear Society

JRC91615

978-1-926773-16-2,   

http://www.pbnc2014.org/proceedings/html_files/program.html,    http://www.pbnc2014.org/proceedings/html_files/author_index.html#R,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC91615,