European Sodium Fast Reactor - Safety by Innovative Monitoring, Power Level flexibility and Experimental research

Informations projet

ESFR-SIMPLE

N° de convention de subvention: 101059543

Date de signature de la CE 23 Mai 2022

Date de début 1 Octobre 2022

Date de fin 30 Septembre 2026

Financé au titre de

• Euratom Research and Training Programme (EURATOM)

Coût total

€ 6 506 233,75

Contribution de l’UE

€ 3 046 560,50

Coordonné par

COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
France

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Livrables

Documents, reports (11)

TESP design and production

Thermoelectric/solar system design• Design of the TE system by loop resistance specification and TE system specification• Design of electricity generating part and pump, and stress analysis in relation with WP1Design, production and testing of TESP• Building of a mock-up of the TE system• Implementation of commissioning and performing tests

Grid requirements

List of requirements for the flexible SMR-SFR in view of EU2050 and possible critical scenarios (taking into account different factors: energy policies of EU countries, share of renewable energies, fleet of electrical cars, status of energy storage systems, fusion power plants…)

Data Management Plan

The Data Management Plan will outline the conditions for data preservation, adherence to FAIR principles, publication, and clearly make a distinction between potentially sensitive or confidential information and open access data.

Compilation of computational benchmarks

A compilation of computational benchmarks will be selected by the project experts and adapted specifically for training purposes, focusing on skills and best practices of modelling SFRs. These will include: neutronics core modelling and transient, multi-physics simulation of entire primary system loop.

Evaluation results of core catcher innovation measures

• Characterisation of heat transfer• Proposal of innovative concepts or measures to be tested in subtasks 6.2.2 and 6.2.3.

Project Quality Plan and online workspace

Project Quality Plan

Neural network specification and test condition specification

report on Definition and justification of the choices for the following work on bubble detection (choice of artificial intelligence method and definition of the experimental conditions).

Report on CIBD and ROFEX experiments for gas bubbles in sodium

A CIBD system is to be designed and tested for this case. The CIBD measurements will be compared with the measurements obtained from US and ECFM sensors available at HZDR which, however, provide also no full measurement of the gas bubbles. The ultrafast electron beam X-ray tomography scanner ROFEX has been developed at HZDR. It provides thousands of frames per second and a spatial resolution of less than 1 mm. Here it will be applied to gas bubbles in liquid sodium. By variation of the gas injection parameters, interesting comparisons between the full bubble measurements by ROFEX and the more integral CIBD measurements will be done

ESFR metallic fuel study: safety approach

-PLOF, i.e., primary pumps shutdown with scram- PSBO, i.e., all pumps shutdown with scram- Review of the results

Gender Action Plan

Gender Action Plan defining concrete actions and tools to systematically integrate the gender perspective in all WPs.

ESFR metallic fuel study: fuel and core designs

- Review and update of safety objectives.- Select fuel type and make specification of the material properties including reference models for swelling, creep, fission gas release, etc.- Design new fuel rod, new fuel assembly and new core

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Communication strategy and website

Project website will be developed and routinely updated with latest project achievements and announcements of events and other activities.

Publications

Conference proceedings (12)

Inductive bubble detection for liquid sodium

Auteurs: Lukas Krause1, M. Sieger1, T. Gundrum1, Thomas Wondrak1 and S. Eckert1
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: "SWINTH-2024-#097"

ESFR-SIMPLE: new HORIZON-EURATOM project on SFR safety

Auteurs: P. Sciora1, K. Mikityuk2, P.V. Bonzom1, E. Fridman3, E. Bubelis4, A. Rineiski4, J.M. Hamy5, X. Gaus-Liu4, G. Gerbeth3, S. Eckert3, V. Dupont1, E. Shwageraus6
Publié dans: 2023
Éditeur: ICAPP 2023 23-27 April 2023 – Gyeongju, Korea

ICAPP 2025 – International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants

Auteurs: Asma Djermoune, Alexandre Lecoanet, Nathalie Seiler, Nicolas Rimbert, Michel Gradeck
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: 12th International Conference on Multiphase flow

ESFR-SIMPLE: new HORIZON-EURATOM project on SFR safety

Auteurs: Sciora, Pierre; Mikityuk, Konstantin; Bonzom, Paul-Vincent; Fridman, Emil; Bubelis, Evaldas; Rineiski, Andrei; Hamy, Jean-Marie; Gaus-Liu, Xiaoyang; Gerbeth, Gunther; Eckert, Sven; Dupont, Vincent; Shwageraus, Eugene
Publié dans: ICAPP 2023 - International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, Apr 2023, Gyeongju, South Korea. pp.1471, 2023
Éditeur: ICAPP

Preconceptual design of the ESFR-SMR core with the SDDS multi-objective optimisation tool

Auteurs: P. Servell 1*, E. Girardi, D. Gerardin, E. Fridman ; A. Ponomarev ; E. Nikitin ; A. Pantano ; P. Sciora ; A. Rineiski; K. Mikityuk; J. Krepel; A. Dubey
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: ICAPP 2025 – International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants

ATHLET Simulation of ESFR-SMR Primary System: Exploring 0D and Pseudo-3D Flow Modelling

Auteurs: Alexander Ponomarev, Emil Fridman
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: Nureth-21

Brushless DC Electric Motor driven Permanent Magnet Electromagnetic Pump Conceptual Design and Tests

Auteurs: Buligins L.1,*, Bucenieks I.1 , Goldšteins L.1 , Mikanovskis O.
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: 13th International PAMIR Conference - Fundamental and Applied MHD September 15 – 19, 2024, Carry-le-Rouet, France

Inductive bubble detection for liquid metals

Auteurs: M. Sieger1*, T. Wondrak1, L. Krause1, T. Gundrum1, S. Eckert1
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: 12th World Congress on Industrial Process Tomography, Tianjin China

CORE DESIGN AND NEUTRONIC ANALYSIS OF THE EUROPEAN SODIUM FAST REACTOR WITH METALLIC FUEL

Auteurs: Antonio Jiménez-Carrascosa1,∗, Konstantin Mikityuk1, Nicolas Stauff2, Aydin Karahan2, Emil Fridman3, Alexander Ponomarev3
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: ICONE2024

Preliminary Experimental Study of Two-phase Flow in Liquid Sodium Using Ultra-fast X-ray CT

Auteurs: Guanghao Jiao, Max Sieger, Martina Bieberle, Thomas Wondrak, Michael Wagner, Frank Barthel, Sven Eckert
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: Nureth-21

Investigation of the effects of surface inclination on the ablation of a solid by the impact of hot liquid jet: implications for sodium-cooled fast reactor safety.

Auteurs: Asma Djermoune, Alexandre Lecoanet, and Nathalie Seiler, Nicolas Rimbert, Michel Gradeck
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: Nureth-21

EXPERIMENTATION & SIMULATION OF SURFACE ABLATION BY A JET FOR CORE-CATCHER SAFETY ISSUE

Auteurs: Avrit A, Seiler N1, Lecoanet A and Djermoune A, Rimbert N, Gradeck M
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: The 11th European Review Meeting on Severe Accident Research (ERMSAR2024)

Other (5)

Etude expérimentale de l’effet de la rugosité sur l’ablation d’une paroi solide par un jet liquide

Auteurs: Antoine Avrit1,2, Djermoune Asma1,2,*, Alexandre Lecoanet1, Nathalie Seiler1, Michel Gradeck2, and Nicolas Rimbert2
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: 1CEA, DES, IRESNE, DTN, SMTA, Cadarache, F-13108, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France 2Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LEMTA, F-54000, Nancy, France

SFR-SMR REQUIREMENTS TO FIT INTO A FUTURE EUROPEAN ELECTRICITY NETWORK

Auteurs: S. PEREZ-MARTIN, E. BUBELIS, S. RUCK
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: IAEA-CN-327/254

ESFR-SIMPLE project: towards a ESFR-SMR design

Auteurs: P. Sciora1*, A. Pantano1, E. Fridman2, A. Ponomarev2, P. Servell3, D. Gérardin3, E. Girardi3, B. Farges4, K. Mikityuk5, A. Rineiski6, J. Guidez7
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: CEA, HZDR, FRAMATOME, KIT

SFR core-catcher safety issue: Experimentation and simulation of its ablation by an impinging jet

Auteurs: A. Avrit a, N. Seiler a,*, A. Lecoanet a, A. Djermoune a, N. Rimbert b, M. Gradeck
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: Annals of Nuclear Energy 217 (2025) 111329

Experimental investigation of geometric effects on the ablation of solid surfaces by an impinging jet

Auteurs: Asma Djermoune1,2, Alexandre Lecoanet1, Nathalie Seiler1, Nicolas Rimbert2, Michel Gradeck 2.
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: 12th International Conference on Multiphase flow