Study of an intrinsically safe infrastructure for training and research on nuclear technologies

Study of an intrinsically safe infrastructure for training and research on nuclear technologies

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Within European Partitioning & Transmutation research programs, infrastructures specifically dedicated to the study of fundamental reactor physics and engineering parameters of future fast-neutron-based reactors are very important, being some of these features not available in present zero-power prototypes.This presentation will illustrate the conceptual design of an Accelerator-Driven System with high safety standards, but ample flexibility for measurements.The galaxy harmony nc design assumes as base option a 70 MeV, 0.75 mA proton cyclotron, as the one which will be installed at the INFN National Laboratory in Legnaro, Italy and a Beryllium target, with Helium gas as core coolant.Safety is guaranteed by limiting the thermal power to 200 kW, with a neutron multiplication coefficient around 0.

94, loading the core with fuel containing biomat for sale Uranium enriched at 20% inserted in a solid-lead diffuser.The small decay heat can be passively removed by thermal radiation from the vessel.Such a system could be used to study, among others, some specific aspects of neutron diffusion in lead, beam-core coupling, target cooling and could serve as a training facility.