A study of the application of HFETR and its safety review management principles

IF 1.9 3区工程技术 Q1 NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Annals of Nuclear Energy Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI:10.1016/j.anucene.2025.111351

Liang Zhang, Qibing Chen, Mingyan Tong, Guoqiang Liu, Peng Liu, Panqing He

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Abstract

With the rapid development of national economy and scientific and technological capabilities over the past decades, irradiation test and isotope production of research reactors have grown considerably, and the associated safety risks and controls accompanying the research reactor operations and applications have become increasing critical. With the gradual diversification of irradiation test methods and test materials in research reactors, it is difficult for the relevant regulations and guidance frameworks based on HAF/HAD (nuclear safety laws and regulations of China / nuclear safety guidance of China) to cover all types of applications, creating challenges in safety review and management for research reactor applications in practice. In this study, we have sorted out the relevant laws, regulations and bases of research reactor application safety review, categorized the research reactor applications and historical data of HFETR (High Flux Engineering Test Reactor), analyzed the specific application safety review practices of HFETR, and proposed the management principles for its application safety review. The research findings presented in this paper can provide technical references for safety review processes and management practices pertaining to applications in similar research reactors.

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Annals of Nuclear Energy 工程技术-核科学技术

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4.30

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21.10%

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632

审稿时长

7.3 months

期刊介绍： Annals of Nuclear Energy provides an international medium for the communication of original research, ideas and developments in all areas of the field of nuclear energy science and technology. Its scope embraces nuclear fuel reserves, fuel cycles and cost, materials, processing, system and component technology (fission only), design and optimization, direct conversion of nuclear energy sources, environmental control, reactor physics, heat transfer and fluid dynamics, structural analysis, fuel management, future developments, nuclear fuel and safety, nuclear aerosol, neutron physics, computer technology (both software and hardware), risk assessment, radioactive waste disposal and reactor thermal hydraulics. Papers submitted to Annals need to demonstrate a clear link to nuclear power generation/nuclear engineering. Papers which deal with pure nuclear physics, pure health physics, imaging, or attenuation and shielding properties of concretes and various geological materials are not within the scope of the journal. Also, papers that deal with policy or economics are not within the scope of the journal.