International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Research Applications and Utilization of Accelerators

4-8 May 2009, Vienna

Feedback to the Designers from Research and from Safety

A. Woaye-Hune¹, S. Ehster-Vignoud¹, L. Mansani², and B. Arien³

¹AREVA NP, Lyon, France
²Ansaldo Nucleare S.p.A., Genova, Italy
³SCK·CEN, Boeretang, Mol, Belgium

Corresponding Author: antony.woayehune@areva.com

Within the EUROTRANS project, the design activities have started from the very beginning while R&D activities were running in parallel either within the same project (like the other domains related to fuel – AFTRA – and to materials – DEMETRA) or outside. Once a first version of the design was made available, the safety calculations could then also start (most of the time at least one year after the start of the design).

Only at the very end of the project R&D results and safety calculations become available. No room is available (be it in time or in manpower) to perform a complete iteration within the EUROTRANS project. But this will occur within the CDT project described in another contribution. So it becomes the duty within the finishing EUROTRANS project to provide a list of both the verified assumptions and the required modifications.

In this paper we present the different assumptions that the engineering teams have taken and the possible consequences for the design, should those assumptions be inaccurate. We list also preliminary results from the materials studies and from the safety calculations.

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