Thermo-hydraulic analysis of the windowless target system

Experimental and numerical investigation of liquid-metal free-surface flows in spallation targets

“…The term alternative refers to the fact that a window-target currently represents the preferred target option so that the free surface target is denoted alternative. The driving idea was to adapt a channel configuration developed during the Euratom project PDS-XADS (Bianchi et al, 2008) (with the free-surface approximated as a free-slip wall) to the much smaller available space.…”

Tracking of fuel particles after pin failure in nominal, loss-of-flow and shutdown conditions in the MYRRHA reactor

“…Through a series of initiatives co-funded by the European Commission, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been extensively used for the dimensioning and the control of several subsystems of MYRRHA such as the primary heat exchanger (Moreau, 2012) or spallation target (Bianchi et al, 2008). In the last few years, the increase in computational power has enabled CFD to be increasingly used in nuclear reactor safety analyses.…”

Study of steady-state heat transfer with various large beam intensities in ADS windowless spallation target

“…However, the window needs to endure high-energy proton irradiation and corrosion by the flowing heavy liquid metal in very high temperature and uptill now no suitable materials can sustain it for long time. Therefore, the windowless target in which the proton beam from the accelerator directly hits on a free surface of the heavy liquid metal target is more feasible and solves the problem of material failure [2].…”