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Closed Nuclear Fuel Cycle with Fast Reactors

Handbook of Russian Nuclear Power

  • 1st Edition - July 18, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Evgeny Adamov
  • Language: English

Closed Nuclear Fuel Cycle with Fast Reactors: Handbook of Russian Nuclear Power provides unique insights into research and practical activities from leading Russian experts.… Read more

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Description

Closed Nuclear Fuel Cycle with Fast Reactors: Handbook of Russian Nuclear Power provides unique insights into research and practical activities from leading Russian experts. It presents readers with unprecedented insight and essential knowledge surrounding nuclear fast reactor technologies, as well as novel methods to close the nuclear fuel cycle to achieve cleaner, more environmentally friendly, and more efficient nuclear power. Using the Proryv Project as a framework, the book's contributors provide detailed descriptions of technologies in development in Russia, allowing readers from around the globe to gain a thorough understanding which they can then apply to their own research and practice.

Nuclear engineers and technologists of fast reactors, advanced reactors and fuel cycles will use this book as a guide to inform new technology development. They will be able to use the experiences from the Proryv Project to drive fast reactor development with closed fuel cycles for the future.

Key features

  • Provides a presentation of new nuclear reactor and fuel cycle technologies within the unique framework of Russia’s Proryv Project
  • Presents novel technologies to close the nuclear fuel cycle to promote cleaner and more environmentally protective nuclear power
  • Includes thorough coverage on the topic, including core design, coolants, fuels, accident protection and waste management technologies

Readership

Nuclear engineers and technologists of fast reactors, advanced reactors and fuel cycles; nuclear safety analysts; nuclear designers; masters and PhD students of nuclear engineering and neutron physics. Energy planners and strategists at government level

Table of contents

1. Introduction

Part I. Global power generation and the role of nuclear power engineering


2. Power generation and sustainable development

3. Role of nuclear power engineering in the Russian fuel and energy industry

Part II. Basic components of a new technology platform for nuclear power engineering


4. Fuel cycles of nuclear power engineering

5. Fuel supply

6. Prevention of severe reactivity-related accidents

7. Prevention of severe heat removal accidents

8. Codes for development and safety analysis of reactor plants

9. SNF and RW handling as a risk factor for the public

10. Radiation and radiological equivalence of RW for two-component nuclear power engineering

11. Technology support of the non-proliferation regime and conditions for export of the CNFC and FNR technologies

12. Economic competitiveness of innovative nuclear power engineering

Part III. Nuclear fuel and closing of the nuclear fuel cycle

13. Uranium and uranium-plutonium nuclear fuel

14. Dense nuclear fuel for fast reactors

15. Development of nitride fuel within the framework of Breakthrough Project

16. Mixed oxide fuel for fast reactors

17. REMIX fuel

18. Adaptation of uranium-plutonium fuel fabrication technologies

19. Usage of the industry-specific fuel infrastructure

20. Structural materials for fuel element claddings

21. SNF processing technologies

22. Radioactive waste management

Part IV. Advanced reactor technologies and the nuclear power engineering infrastructure

23. New generation reactor technologies within the framework of Generation IV International Forum

24. Development of technologies based on fast reactors

25. Fast reactors within the framework of Breakthrough Work Stream

26. Thermal reactors

27. Expansion of the nuclear power engineering application scope

28. Alternative reactor technologies

29. Superconducting power transmission technologies

30. Experimental facilities of nuclear power engineering

31. Digitalization in nuclear power engineering

32. Regulatory framework for the modern and future nuclear power engineering

Part V. Strategic guidelines for establishment of two-component nuclear power engineering

33. Optimal development scenarios for the Russian nuclear power engineering

34. Comparative analysis of the Russian nuclear power engineering development scenarios

35. Russian nuclear power engineering development variants for different integral capacity growth scenarios

Conclusion

Appendix

1. Potential biological hazard (PBH) of significant radionuclides in the nuclear power engineering waste from thermal and fast reactors in 2100

2. PBH of significant radionuclides in the nuclear power engineering waste from thermal and fast reactors subsequent to storage for 100 to 1000 years starting with 2100

3. PBH of natural uranium with the total mass of 541.7 thous. tons

4. Characteristics of fuel campaigns for light-water reactors in the closed NFC

5. Basic technical characteristics of power units with fast reactors

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 18, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Evgeny Adamov

Evgeny Adamov is an honored scientist of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Council of Rosatom State Corporation and author of more than 200 scientific publications and patents. Since 2012, research on the development of a new technological platform for nuclear power has been carried out as part of the “Proryv” project, initiated by Professor Adamov and implemented under his scientific supervision. In the 1980s, E.O. Adamov launched scientific and technical activities in Russia to develop a new (fifth) generation nuclear technologies for large-scale nuclear power with closed nuclear fuel cycle (CNFC) and fast reactors, which allows to overcome the basic modern problems of nuclear energy production.
Affiliations and expertise
Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Council of Rosatom State Corporation, Russia

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