Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the 2005 International RERTR Meeting
FUTURE NEEDS
FOR HEU-FUELED CRITICAL ASSEMBLIES
Frank N. von Hippel
Program on Science and Global Security
Princeton University, 221 Nassau St, 2nd floor,
Princeton, NJ 08542-4601 – USA
ABSTRACT
This is an unofficial report on the results of an
IAEA-commissioned consultation on the “Future use of
Critical and Subcritical Assemblies” that was carried
out in Vienna in February 2005.
The recommendations were for:
1) Improvements in the IAEA’s research-reactor
database (RRDB) in terms of content and accuracy;
2) Need-based planning for existing and new critical
facilities and decisions for which existing facilities
are no longer needed and can be decommissioned and which
new or improved facilities are required to facilitate
the development of innovative reactor designs;
3) Minimization of use of HEU and plutonium and the
enrichment of HEU used in critical facilities; and
4) Data preservation and sharing so that experiments
useful for benchmarking computer simulations of reactor
neutronics need not be repeated.
The report contains a list of operating and shutdown
but not decommissioned fueled critical and subcritical
assemblies.
Contact: Dr. Jordi Roglans-Ribas
Technical Director, RERTR Department
Nuclear Engineering Division – 362
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439
Fax: +1 630-252-5161
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