M. Nieminen, M. Olin, J. Laatikainen-Luntama, S. Wickham, S. Doudou, A. Fuller, J. Kent, M. Fournier, S. Clarke, C. Scales, N. Hyatt, S. Walling, L. J. Gardner, S. Catherin, B. Frasca
{"title":"Thermal treatment for radioactive waste minimisation","authors":"M. Nieminen, M. Olin, J. Laatikainen-Luntama, S. Wickham, S. Doudou, A. Fuller, J. Kent, M. Fournier, S. Clarke, C. Scales, N. Hyatt, S. Walling, L. J. Gardner, S. Catherin, B. Frasca","doi":"10.1051/epjn/2019040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2019040","url":null,"abstract":"Safe management of radioactive waste is challenging to waste producers and waste management organisations. Deployment of thermal treatment technologies can provide significant improvements: volume reduction, waste passivation, organics destruction, safety demonstration facilitation, etc. The EC-funded THERAMIN project enables an EU-wide strategic review and assessment of the value of thermal treatment technologies applicable to Low and Intermediate Level waste streams (ion exchange media, soft operational waste, sludges, organic waste, and liquids). THERAMIN compiles an EU-wide database of wastes, which could be treated by thermal technologies and documents available thermal technologies. Applicability and benefits of technologies to the identified waste streams will be evaluated through full-scale demonstration tests by project partners. Safety case implications will also be assessed through the study of the disposability of thermally treated waste products. This paper will communicate the strategic aims of the ongoing project and highlight some key findings and results achieved to date.","PeriodicalId":44454,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1051/epjn/2019040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57825996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Mottershead, C. Robertson, S. Lindqvist, F. Lopez, E. Puska
{"title":"Safety assurance through advances in long-term operation","authors":"K. Mottershead, C. Robertson, S. Lindqvist, F. Lopez, E. Puska","doi":"10.1051/epjn/2019015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2019015","url":null,"abstract":"Mindful of the challenges to long-term operation, especially the severe safety and environmental consequences shown through historical nuclear power plant accidents (e.g. Fukoshima, Chernobyl, etc), it is imperative that European research and innovation focuses on demonstrating reliable long-term operation. Five examples of European Commission supported projects meeting such objectives are INCEFA+, SOTERIA, ATLAS+, MEACTOS and NUGENIA+. There are economies of scale within, and synergies across these projects which enable further advantage to be gained. Additionally, since researchers are well engaged internationally, this brings into European Organisations latest developments in understanding from further afield (e.g. USA, Japan), further enabling safety assurance advances, and enabling work overseas to be influenced consistent with European requirements. Through examples, this paper provides evidence of the advances claimed, whilst being careful to also declare areas of interest for which further work is still a priority.","PeriodicalId":44454,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1051/epjn/2019015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57825707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use case 3: post accidental site remediation − CEA","authors":"Y. Desnoyers, C. Faucheux, N. Pérot","doi":"10.1051/epjn/2019060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2019060","url":null,"abstract":"Within the H2020 INSIDER project, the main objective of work package 3 (WP3) is to draft a sampling guide for initial nuclear site characterization in constraint environments, before decommissioning, based on a statistical approach. This paper is dedicated to the sampling strategy for use case 3 (UC3) about contaminated soils, in the context of post-incidental remediation of a site. For this use case, the constraint environment comes from the difficulty to collect samples beneath a building on the one hand and the fact that samples were collected in the past with no possibility for additional samples. This task has been initiated by gathering prior knowledge for the contaminated site and analysing the available dataset (historical assessment + available data from non-destructive and destructive analyses).","PeriodicalId":44454,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1051/epjn/2019060","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57826284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Mikityuk, L. Ammirabile, M. Forni, J. Jagielski, N. Girault, Á. Horváth, J. Kloosterman, M. Tarantino, A. Vasile
{"title":"Review of Euratom projects on design, safety assessment, R&D and licensing for ESNII/Gen-IV fast neutron systems","authors":"K. Mikityuk, L. Ammirabile, M. Forni, J. Jagielski, N. Girault, Á. Horváth, J. Kloosterman, M. Tarantino, A. Vasile","doi":"10.1051/epjn/2019007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2019007","url":null,"abstract":"Nine Euratom projects started since late 2011 in support of the infrastructure and R&D of the seven fast reactor systems are briefly presented in the paper in terms of key objectives, results and recommendations.","PeriodicalId":44454,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1051/epjn/2019007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57825499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Numerical design of thorium and uranium fuel samples irradiation in lead environment","authors":"M. Oettingen","doi":"10.1051/epjn/2020014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2020014","url":null,"abstract":"The paper shows capabilities of thorium-lead fuel assembly for design of irradiation experiments on ThO2 and natural UO2 fuel samples using radioisotope neutron source. The main purpose of the current analysis was to determine the irradiation environment in the samples, especially: neutron spectrum, power, activity, reaction rates, production of 233Pa and 239Np as well as breeding of 233U and 239Pu. An advanced three-dimensional numerical model for Monte Carlo radiation transport and burnup simulations was developed using the Monte Carlo Continuous Energy Burnup Code (MCB). The versatility of the assembly gives a perfect opportunity to perform many irradiation experiments for R&D on the thorium and uranium fuel cycle in a different material and geometrical environments.","PeriodicalId":44454,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1051/epjn/2020014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57826522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Gherrab, F. Dacquait, D. You, E. Tévissen, Raphaël Lecocq, Kim Schildermans
{"title":"Influence of the dissolved hydrogen concentration on the radioactive contamination of the primary loops of DOEL-4 PWR using the OSCAR code","authors":"M. Gherrab, F. Dacquait, D. You, E. Tévissen, Raphaël Lecocq, Kim Schildermans","doi":"10.1051/epjn/2020005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2020005","url":null,"abstract":"Corrosion products are generated in the primary circuit during normal operation and are activated in the core. Those activated corrosion products, mainly 58 Co and 60 Co (coming respectively from the activation of 58 Ni and 59 Co), are then transported by the primary fluid and deposited on the out-of-flux surfaces (steam generators, primary coolant pipes…). To minimize this radioactive contamination, one needs to understand the behavior of corrosion products by carrying out measurements in PWRs and test loops combined with a reactor contamination assessment code named OSCAR. The aim of this article is to evaluate the influence of the change in the Dissolved Hydrogen (DH) concentration on the contamination of the primary loops of DOEL-4 PWR, a Belgian unit. After the description of the principle of the OSCAR V1.3 code, its use is illustrated with the simulation of DOEL-4. Finally, those calculations are compared to autoclave experiments called DUPLEX with thermodynamic and chemical conditions closed to those observed in PWRs. OSCAR V1.3 calculations show that an increase in the DH concentration results in a decrease in 58 Co surface activities. These results are consistent with those from the DUPLEX experiments. Finally, an increase of the DH concentration is then recommended in operating PWRs to reduce the 58 Co surface contamination.","PeriodicalId":44454,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies","volume":"6 1","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1051/epjn/2020005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57826798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of a user-friendly guideline for data analysis and sampling design strategy","authors":"Y. Desnoyers, B. Rogiers","doi":"10.1051/epjn/2020006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2020006","url":null,"abstract":"Within the H2020 INSIDER project, the main objective of work package 3 (WP3) is to draft a sampling guide for initial nuclear site characterization in constraint environments, before decommissioning, based on a statistical approach. The second task of WP3 aims at developing a strategy for sampling in the field of initial nuclear site characterization in view of decommissioning, with the most important goal to guide the end user to appropriate statistical methods (including, but not limited to those identified during the first overview task) to use for data analysis and sampling design. To aid the end user in applying this strategy, a user-friendly application for guiding the end user through the contents of the strategy and the initial characterization process is also developed.","PeriodicalId":44454,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1051/epjn/2020006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57826809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An improved method to evaluate the “Joint Oxyde-Gaine” formation in (U,Pu)O2 irradiated fuels using the GERMINAL V2 code coupled to Calphad thermodynamic computations","authors":"K. Samuelsson, J. Dumas, B. Sundman, M. Lainet","doi":"10.1051/epjn/2020008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2020008","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, two different thermodynamic softwares, ANGE using the TBASE database, and OPENCALPHAD using the TAF-ID (Thermodynamics of Advanced Fuels – International Database), have been integrated into the GERMINAL V2 fuel performance code (of the PLEIADES platform) in order to evaluate the chemical state of (U, Pu)O2 fuel and fission products in sodium cooled fast reactors. A model to calculate the composition and the thickness of the “Joint-Oxyde Gaine” (JOG) fission product layer in the fuel-clad gap has been developed. Five fuel pins with a final burnup ranging between 3.8 and 13.4% FIMA (Fissions per Initial Metal Atom) have been simulated, and the calculated width of the fission product layer have been compared with post irradiation examinations. The two different thermodynamic softwares have been compared in terms of computation time and predicted fuel-to-clad gap chemistry. The main elements and phases encountered in the fission productlayer have been identified, and the impact of the changing oxygen potential has been explored.","PeriodicalId":44454,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1051/epjn/2020008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57826819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovative and safe supply of fuels for reactors","authors":"S. Valance, B. Baumeister, W. Petry, J. Höglund","doi":"10.1051/epjn/2019013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2019013","url":null,"abstract":"Within the Euratom research and training program 2014–2018, three projects aiming at securing the fuel supply for European power and research reactors have been funded. Those three projects address the potential weaknesses – supplier diversity, provision of enriched fissile material – associated with the furbishing of nuclear fuels. First, the ESSANUF project, now terminated, resulted in the design and licensing of a fuel element for VVER-440 nuclear power plant manufactured by Westinghouse. The HERACLES-CP project aimed at preparing the conversion of high performance research reactor to low enriched uranium fuels by exploring fuels based on uranium-molybdenium. Finally, the LEU-FOREvER pursues the work initiated in HERACLES-CP, completing it by an exploration of the high-density silicide fuels, and including the diversification of fuel supplier for soviet designed European medium power research reactor. This paper describes the projects goals, structure and their achievements.","PeriodicalId":44454,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1051/epjn/2019013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57825640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Piksaikin, A. Egorov, D. Gremyachkin, K. Mitrofanov, V. F. Mitrofanov
{"title":"Generation of correlation and covariance matrices for the recommended temporal DN parameters in 6- and 8-group models","authors":"V. Piksaikin, A. Egorov, D. Gremyachkin, K. Mitrofanov, V. F. Mitrofanov","doi":"10.1051/epjn/2020013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2020013","url":null,"abstract":"In the present work the new data on correlation and covariance matrices have been calculated for all recommended data on temporal parameters of delayed neutrons in 6- and 8-group models. The method for producing the correlation and covariance data for the temporal DN parameters is described. The table of changes is listed in the text. Some examples of the data generated on basis of experimental DN decay curves (for IPPE data) and data generated on the basis of decay curves restored using temporal parameters (for works of another authors) are listed too.","PeriodicalId":44454,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57826472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}