Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors: the ASTRID Plant Project

Coz, Pierre Le; Sauvage, Jean-François; Serpantie, J.P.

doi:10.1051/rgn/20115039

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“…However, the deployment of SFRs at the industrial scale has not started yet. A wide range of designs are still studied [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. Their technology readiness level are very wide and go from ideas to almost industrial reactors.…”

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Global and flexible models for Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors in fuel cycle simulations

Ernoult

Doligez

Thiollière

et al. 2019

Annals of Nuclear Energy

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Since Sodium cooled Fast Reactors are present in many scenarios and strategies for the future of nuclear energy while not having a specific design established yet, we created a new fast and flexible model for the dynamic fuel cycle simulation tools CLASS. It includes a depletion meta-model and a fuel loading method based on artificial neural networks. It is able to represent a wide range of Sodium cooled Fast Reactor designs using oxide fuels and a wide range of fuel management strategies within fuel cycle simulation tools. A comprehensive analysis of simplification options has been made in order to choose the right level of complexity for the reference full core depletion calculations performed with the MURE code used for the training of the meta-model. The process from these reference calculations to the final metamodel is explained and a specific focus is given to the operations going from

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confidence: 99%