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The Radiation Protection and Shielding Division is developing and promoting radiation protection and shielding aspects of nuclear science and technology — including interaction of nuclear radiation with materials and biological systems, instruments and techniques for the measurement of nuclear radiation fields, and radiation shield design and evaluation.
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First concrete marks start of safety-related construction for Hermes test reactor
Kairos Power announced this morning that safety-related nuclear construction has begun at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., site where the company is building its Hermes low-power test reactor. Hermes, a scaled demonstration of Kairos Power’s fluoride salt–cooled, high-temperature reactor technology, became the first non–light water reactor to receive a construction permit from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in December 2023. The company broke ground at the site in July 2024.
Nathan Greiner, François Madiot, Yannick Gorsse, Cyril Patricot, Guillaume Campioni
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 12 | December 2023 | Pages 3000-3021
YMSR Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2197043
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Molten salt nuclear reactors (MSRs) constitute a promising technology to produce safe, reliable, abundant low-carbon energy. To design MSR systems and perform safety analyses on them, numerical simulation is a powerful tool. Here, we implemented a coupling between several solvers of the deterministic neutronics code APOLLO3® (the MINARET SN transport and the MINOS diffusion and SPn-simplified transport solvers) and the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code TRUST/TrioCFD, both developed at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). The code coupling is orchestrated using the dedicated C3PO library of the open-source SALOME platform. A new code-coupling strategy is employed whereby the delayed neutron precursor concentrations are computed by the CFD code, which eases the use of traditional deterministic neutronics codes. We verified the correctness of our implementation by performing a numerical benchmark dedicated to fast spectrum MSRs originally devised by the French National Center for Scientific Research. The numerical results we obtained are in excellent agreement with those obtained by recent MSR-dedicated multiphysics simulation tools. This study provides a new convenient neutronic–thermal-hydraulic coupling strategy for MSR core simulation.