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Joint NEA project performs high-burnup test
An article in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s July news bulletin noted that a first test has been completed for the High Burnup Experiments in Reactivity Initiated Accident (HERA) project. The project aim is to understand the performance of light water reactor fuel at high burnup under reactivity-initiated accidents (RIA).
K. Yamazaki, T. Oishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 3 | October 2011 | Pages 1109-1112
Concept and Facility | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12609
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The contribution of tritium fuel system construction and operation to the global COE and the life-cycle GHG emissions is analysed using PEC reactor system design code for both magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) and inertial confinement fusion (ICF) reactors. This contribution is less than a few percents in the present model, but the CO2 emissions from the ICF fuel system are rather higher than those from MCF, because of the DT pellet fabrication processes.
