Argonne National Laboratory
RERTR
Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors
Nuclear Science and Engineering Division at Argonne
U.S. Department of Energy

Home  :: 2000 International RERTR Meeting Program  :: Related Documents

Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the
2000 International RERTR Meeting

Neutronic Feasibility Studies for
LEU Conversion of the HFR Petten Reactor

N.A. Hanan, J.R. Deen, and J.E. Matos
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, IL 60439-4815

J.A. Hendriks, P.J.M. Thijssen, and F.J. Wijtsma
Nuclear Research and consultancy Group
Petten, The Netherlands

ABSTRACT

Design and safety analyses to determine an optimum LEU fuel assembly design using U3Si2-Al fuel with up to 4.8 g/cm3 for conversion of the HFR Petten reactor were performed by the RERTR program in cooperation with the Joint Research Centre and NRG. Credibility of the calculational methods and models were established by comparing calculations with recent measurements by NRG for a core configuration set up for this purpose. This model and methodology were then used to study various LEU fissile loading and burnable poison options that would satisfy specific design criteria.


PDF version available
DOWNLOAD full paper in PDF format.


Contact:
Dr. Nelson Hanan
Nuclear Engineer
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439 USA

Phone: (630) 252-6627
Fax:     (630) 252-5161

2016 RERTR Meeting

The 2016 International RERTR Meeting (RERTR-2016) will take place in Belgium. Stay tuned for further details.

2015 RERTR Meeting

The 2015 International RERTR Meeting (RERTR-2015) took place in Seoul, Korea on Oct. 11-14, 2015.
For more information visit RERTR-2015.

Links


ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY, Nuclear Engineering Division, RERTR Department
9700 South Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439-4814
A U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC
 

Last modified on July 29, 2008 11:34 +0200