Conveners
Spent Fuel Management and Decommissioning
- Yidong ZHOU
Mr
Ram Sharma
(BARC)
18/11/2015, 13:30
Research Reactor Spent Fuel Management and Decommissioning
Oral Presentation
Cirus, a vertical tank type 40 MW thermal research reactor, natural uranium fueled, heavy water moderated and light water cooled; is located in Bhabha atomic research centre, Mumbai, India. It achieved first criticality in July 1960 and was operated successfully for 50 years till permanent shut down in December, 2010. The core has been completely unloaded, heavy water has been removed and...
Mr
Christophe BIGOU
(ASN), Mrs
Stephanie KANAMORI
(IRSN)
18/11/2015, 14:00
Research Reactor Spent Fuel Management and Decommissioning
Oral Presentation
The French research reactor “Osiris” is an open-core pool type reactor notably used for the irradiation of enriched uranium targets in order to produce medical isotopes and operated by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). Designed in 1965, it was supposed to be definitively shut down by the end of 2015. This assumption has been considered by the French Nuclear...
Prof.
Giorgi Nabakhtiani
(Departent for Nuclear and Radiation Safety)
18/11/2015, 14:20
Research Reactor Spent Fuel Management and Decommissioning
Oral Presentation
1. Introduction
Georgia had only one nuclear research reactor IRT-M belonged to the Institute of Physics. The pool type reactor was put in operation at 1960 and shut at 1988. During its operation the reactor was refurbished two times due to what its power was increased from 2 MW up to 8MW. Accordingly, the neutron flux was increased up to 1014n/cm2•sec. The especial investigations were...
Dr
Lalgudi Ramanathan
(Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares - IPEN)
18/11/2015, 14:40
Research Reactor Spent Fuel Management and Decommissioning
Oral Presentation
Spent aluminum-clad fuels from research reactors (RRs) are stored for decades in water filled pools. Pitting corrosion of these fuels has been reported despite water quality management programs at the storage sites, and attributed to synergism in the effect of specific basin water parameters on corrosion of aluminum alloys. Corrosion protection of the spent RR fuel in wet storage is therefore...
