Conveners
Operation and Maintenance
- Benji Steynberg (SAFARI-1 Necsa)
Operation and Maintenance
- Axel Pichlmaier (TU-München, FRM II)
Operation and Maintenance
- John Arnold (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories)
Frances Marshall
(International Atomic Energy Agency)
17/11/2015, 13:50
Research Reactor Operation and Maintenance
Oral Presentation
Currently there are 247 operating research reactors globally, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Research Reactor Database (RRDB). These reactors have a well-documented history of contributing to peaceful nuclear research and technology development, and have helped in the education and training of generations of scientists, reactor operators, and engineers. They are...
Mr
Andrew Frikken
(ANSTO)
17/11/2015, 14:20
Research Reactor Operation and Maintenance
Oral Presentation
OPAL is a 20MW(t) reactor facility operated by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) in Sydney, Australia. Commissioned in 2006, OPAL is a multipurpose reactor used to perform a range of commercial and scientific irradiations supporting ANSTO’s radiopharmaceutical production and industrial irradiation businesses, as well as providing thermal and cold neutron beams...
Prof.
Mohamed Shaat
(Professor)
17/11/2015, 14:50
Research Reactor Operation and Maintenance
Oral Presentation
Egypt has two research reactors, the first reactor was designed by the Former Soviet Union, it has a power of 2MW, tank type, light water moderated and reflected and the fuel type is EK-10 which consists of Uo2 fuel rods with 10% enrichment.
The reactor was commissioned on 1960 and was working until 2010. After that it has been in an extended shutdown state due to ageing of mechanical...
Mr
Axel Pichlmaier
(TU-München, FRM II)
17/11/2015, 15:10
Research Reactor Operation and Maintenance
Oral Presentation
The FRM II is Germany’s most modern research reactor. It became critical for the first time on March 2nd, 2004. Since routine operation started in May 2005, it has just completed its first ten years of operation. The FRM II is a multi-purpose reactor and operates at nominal power of 20 MW. It is light water cooled and heavy water moderated. It is used predominantly for neutron scattering...
Dr
Edgar Koonen
(SCK-CEN)
17/11/2015, 16:00
Research Reactor Operation and Maintenance
Oral Presentation
The development high density LEU fuels was initiated by the U.S. Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors (RERTR) program, established in 1978 to address a concern about the proliferation of HEU in civil commerce. Its goal was to enable research and test reactors to convert to, or back to, LEU by developing higher-density fuels that could accommodate the required increase in 238U and...
Dr
John Stevens
(Argonne National Laboratory)
17/11/2015, 16:30
Research Reactor Operation and Maintenance
Oral Presentation
Nuclear research and test reactors have been built and operated across the globe to serve many missions in science, engineering, and medicine. Over time, many of the reactors have been operated with High Enriched Uranium (HEU, with U-235 enrichment ≥ 20%) fuel. In response to concerns about the potential misuse of HEU, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiated a program – the Reduced...
Mr
Petr Chakrov
(Committee of atomic and energy supervise and control)
17/11/2015, 16:50
Research Reactor Operation and Maintenance
Oral Presentation
WWR-K is a light water 6 MW research reactor operated by the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Activities on conversion of the reactor from HEU to LEU fuel are in progress. LEU fuel assembly for WWR-K has been designed and tested. Necessary modifications of some reactor systems are carried out in frame of the conversion programme.
replacement of instrumentation and...
Mr
Ketut KAMAJAYA
(National Nuclear Energy Agency (BATAN) of Indonesia)
17/11/2015, 17:10
Research Reactor Operation and Maintenance
Oral Presentation
In order to support the national development program, the National Nuclear Energy Agency of Indonesia has among other duties is to conduct activities of research, development, radioisotope production and utilization of nuclear energy. To carry out these duties, the Bandung TRIGA reactor operation should be considered. Until recently, the Bandung TRIGA reactor still has strategic and economic...
Dr
Yuri Mahlers
(Institute for Nuclear Research)
17/11/2015, 17:30
Research Reactor Operation and Maintenance
Oral Presentation
In accordance with the program of pilot usage of LEU fuel approved by the Ukrainian Regulatory Committee, most burned HEU fuel assemblies of the WWR-M research reactor were successively replaced by fresh LEU fuel. By using this way, neutronic performance of the reactor remained almost the same as with HEU fuel but such the conversion progressed very slowly. Thus, the new full-core conversion...
Mr
Jaime Sandoval
(Servicio Geológico Colombiano)
19/11/2015, 16:00
Research Reactor Operation and Maintenance
Oral Presentation
ABSTRACT
The IAN-R1 TRIGA (Training Research Isotopes General Atomics) Nuclear Research Reactor is operated by the Colombian Geological Survey (CGS) located in Bogota, this is a pool type reactor and operates at 30 kW. During the year 2012 the reactor underwent a major upgrade on its instrumentation and control systems, task that couldn’t have been carried out without the help of the...
Dr
Kir Konoplev
(Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)
19/11/2015, 16:20
Research Reactor Operation and Maintenance
Oral Presentation
The PIK Reactor is currently under preparation for its power start-up. Its core allows the reactor to achieve the designed power of 100MW. At the same time, designed cycle duration of two weeks is not long enough for the present day experiments. Another reason for the core upgrade is the lack of volume for advanced irradiation of surveillance specimens. Operating reactor cycle of around 30...
Mr
Michael Reichenberger
(Kansas State University)
19/11/2015, 16:40
Research Reactor Operation and Maintenance
Oral Presentation
Miniaturized sensors capable of real-time neutron flux measurements are needed for in-core deployment in research nuclear reactors. Prototype Micro-Pocket Fission Detectors (MPFDs) have previously been tested in neutron beams up to 10^8 n cm^-2 s^-1 [1] and in-core up to an estimated neutron flux of 8×10^12 n cm^-2 s^-1 [2]. Although previous studies confirmed MPFDs can be used to track...
Mr
Henry Obeng
(Ghana Atomic Energy Commission)
19/11/2015, 17:00
Research Reactor Operation and Maintenance
Oral Presentation
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Mr
Nikolay Arkhangelsky
(Rosatom)
19/11/2015, 17:20
Research Reactor Operation and Maintenance
Oral Presentation
The Russian Research Reactors especially high power reactors concentrated mainly in institutes of “Rosatom”. The utilization of them is very high and load factors during many years are not less than 0.6.
The reactors have a different power level, neutron flux and spectrum and it get the broad opportunities for scientific and applied works. The main areas of reactor utilization are material...
Dr
MUNKHBAT Byambajav
(Nuclear Research Center, National University of Mongolia)
19/11/2015, 17:40
Research Reactor Operation and Maintenance
Oral Presentation
Nowadays, the use of electric vehicles such as hybrid cars and electric trains is increasing rapidly. Each such vehicle requires a considerable amount of semiconductor devices, suggesting an ever-growing demand for such devices in the near future. Thus, the mass production of the semiconductor material is becoming a very important issue for many manufacturers. There are several methods for...
