ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
Latest Magazine Issues
Jun 2026
Jan 2026
2026
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
July 2026
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
Two steps forward for U.K. advanced nuclear
This week, two significant announcements have emerged from the United Kingdom’s advanced reactor sector.
On June 14, Rolls-Royce, the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory, and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency announced that they had signed two trilateral memorandums of cooperation to collaborate on “advanced modular reactor (AMR) technology, specifically high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR), and the coated particle fuel these reactors will use.”
Separately, on June 16, Bellevue, Wash.–based TerraPower announced that its Natrium reactor design has been formally submitted for U.K. regulatory review. The company also announced the formation of a new subsidiary, TerraPower UK Ltd.
Xinyu Zhao, Eugene Shwageraus (Univ of Cambridge)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 198-205
GeN-FOAM is a multi-physics solver based on the OpenFOAM library developed at PSI/EPFL, Switzerland for transient analyses of fast reactors. The current version of GeN-FOAM can simulate a wide range of transients with flexible spatial resolution. One of the main limitations of the current version, however, is relatively simple fuel temperature calculation model. Also, the effects of fuel structural and dimensional changes as a function of temperature, composition and burnup are currently not considered. This work first presents the integration of an advanced fuel performance modelling tool TRANSURANUS developed at Joint Research Centre (JRC)-Karlsruhe into the GeN-Foam solver. The new coupled tool is referred to as the GeN-transFoam. The original GeN-Foam doesn't have burnup calculation capability which makes it very inconvenient to simulate a reactor at the end of cycle, especially when an accurate fuel behaviour prediction is expected. The paper reports a simple way to implement the burnup calculation, given the configuration of the GeN-Foam solver. The GeNtransFoam solver with account for burnup effects is used to analysis the European Sodium Fast Reactor (ESFR) at the end of cycle (EOC) in steady state condition. The neutronics calculation results are compared with results provided by Monte Carlo calculation. In the end, the burnup calculation in the code is discussed.