Overview on Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor Design and Related Technologies Development in ENEA

Autor: Marco Utili, Alessandro Venturini, M. Angiolini, Serena Bassini, Camillo Sartorio, C. Cristalli, Francesco Lodi, P. Lorusso, Sebastiano Cataldo, Francesca Papa, Giacomo Grasso, R. Marinari, Marica Eboli, Mariano Tarantino, Daniele Martelli, Chiara Ciantelli, Ivan Di Piazza, A. Fiore, Alessandro Del Nevo, Dario Diamanti
Přispěvatelé: Tarantino, M., Angiolini, M., Bassini, S., Cataldo, S., Ciantelli, C., Cristalli, C., Del Nevo, A., Di Piazza, I., Diamanti, D., Eboli, M., Fiore, A., Grasso, G., Lodi, F., Lorusso, P., Marinari, R., Martelli, D., Papa, F., Sartorio, C., Utili, M., Venturini, A., Tarantino, Mariano, Angiolini, Massimo, Bassini, Serena, Cataldo, Sebastiano, Ciantelli, Chiara, Cristalli, Carlo, Del Nevo, Alessandro, Di Piazza, Ivan, Diamanti, Dario, Eboli, Marica, Fiore, Angela, Grasso, Giacomo, Lodi, Francesco, Lorusso, Pierdomenico, Marinari, Ranieri, Martelli, Daniele, Papa, Francesca, Sartorio, Camillo, Utili, Marco, Venturini, Alessandro
Jazyk: angličtina
Předmět:
Technology
Neutron transport
Engineering
Control and Optimization
Emerging technologies
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Materials and coating
Instrumentation (computer programming)
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Core design
heavy liquid metal technology
lead-cooled fast reactors
materials and coating
numerical tools
thermal-hydraulics
Engineering (miscellaneous)
Heavy liquid metal technology
core design
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Coolant
Lead-cooled Fast Reactors
heavy liquid metal technology
core design
thermal-hydraulics
materials and coating
numerical tools
Numerical tools
Work (electrical)
Thermal-hydraulics
Sustainability
Systems engineering
Lead-cooled fast reactor
Systems design
Lead-cooled fast reactors
business
Energy (miscellaneous)
Zdroj: Energies; Volume 14; Issue 16; Pages: 5157
Energies
Energies, Vol 14, Iss 5157, p 5157 (2021)
ISSN: 1996-1073
DOI: 10.3390/en14165157
Popis: The next generation of nuclear energy systems, also known as Generation IV reactors, are being developed to meet the highest targets of safety and reliability, sustainability, economics, proliferation resistance, and physical protection, with improved performances compared with the currently licensed plants or those presently being built. Among the proposed technologies, lead-cooled fast reactors (LFRs) have been identified by nuclear industries in both Western and developing countries as being among the optimal Generation IV candidates. Since 2000, ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and Sustainable Economic Development is supporting the core design, safety assessment, and technological development of innovative nuclear systems cooled by heavy liquid metals (HLM) and, most recently, fully oriented on LFRs. ENEA is developing world-recognized skills in fast spectrum core design and is one of the largest European fleets of experimental facilities aiming at investigating HLM thermal-hydraulics, coolant chemistry control, corrosion behavior for structural materials, and material properties in the HLM environment, as well as at developing corrosion-protective coatings, components, instrumentation, and innovative systems, supported by experiments and numerical tools. Efforts are also dedicated to develop and validate numerical tools for specific application to HLM systems, ranging from neutronics codes, system and core thermal-hydraulic codes, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and fuel pin performance codes, including their coupling. The present work aims at highlighting the capabilities and competencies developed by ENEA so far in the framework of liquid metal technologies for Generation IV LFRs. In particular, an overview on the ongoing R&D experimental program will be depicted considering the current fleet of facilities, namely: CIRCE, NACIE-UP, LIFUS5, LECOR, BID-1, HELENA, RACHEL, and Mechanical Labs. An overview on the numerical activities performed so far and those presently ongoing is also reported. Finally, an overview of the ENEA contribution to the ALFRED Project in the frame of the FALCON international consortium is reported, mainly addressing the ongoing activity in terms of core design, technology development, and auxiliary systems design.
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