Uranium free fuels for accelerator driven systems: collaboration on oxide and nitride fuel irradiation and modelling

Project Information

CONFIRM

Grant agreement ID: FIKW-CT-2000-00096

Project closed

Start date 1 September 2000

End date 31 August 2008

Funded under

• Research and training programme (Euratom) in the field of nuclear energy (1998 to 2002)

Total cost € 2 063 522,00

EU contribution € 999 069,00

Coordinated by

ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Sweden

Objective

Accelerator driven systems are candidates for burning of uranium free fuels like nuclear waste. As the fraction of waste lost to the secondary waste stream in a multi recycling strategy decreases with increased fuel burnup, an important objective of uranium free fuel development for ADS is to achieve high burnup without loss of safety margins. From the fuel perspective, burnup is limited by swelling rates and pin pressurization. These issues can be addressed by use of optimised fuel pellet, pin and assely designs. This proposal suggests a program for modelling, development and irradiaton of oxide and nitride uranium free fuel s under normal operating conditions as well as under power transients. The objective is to identify a reference oxide fuel for an ADS demo facility, and to investigate safety properties of nitride alternatives.

Fields of science

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• engineering and technology › other engineering and technologies › nuclear engineering › nuclear waste management
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › waste management › waste treatment processes › recycling
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › energy and fuels

Programme(s)

• FP5-EAECTP C - Research and training programme (Euratom) in the field of nuclear energy (1998 to 2002)

Topic(s)

• 2.1.2.-2.2.5 - Transmutation (fuel)

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Lindstedtvägen 20 ; 10044 STOCKHOLM ; Sweden
• Total cost: No data

Participants (7)

AEA TECHNOLOGY PLC

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 220 Harwell ; OX11 0QJ DIDCOT,HARWELL,CHILTON
• Total cost: No data

BRITISH NUCLEAR FUELS PLC

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Sellafield B170 ; CA20 1PG SEASCALE
• Total cost: No data

COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Centre d' Etudes de Cadarache, Bat. 315 ; 13108 ST.PAUL LES DURANCE
• Total cost: No data

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Hermann-von-Helmholtz Platz 1 ; 76125 KARLSRUHE
• Total cost: No data

PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT

Switzerland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 5232 VILLIGEN
• Total cost: No data

SERCO LTD

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: The Quadrant 404, Birchwood Park ; WA3 6AT WARRINGTON
• Total cost: No data

STUDSVIK NUCLEAR AB

Sweden

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 61182 NYKOPING
• Total cost: No data