{"id":11816,"date":"2014-08-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vo.afonico-test.ru\/novosti-otrasli\/cooperation-deal-to-develop-advanced-reactor\/"},"modified":"2014-08-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T09:00:00","slug":"cooperation-deal-to-develop-advanced-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/novosti-otrasli\/cooperation-deal-to-develop-advanced-reactor\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooperation deal to develop advanced reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Korean designers have secured help from Argonne National Laboratory to develop an advanced reactor, which is partly based on America\u2019s successful EBR-II prototype. A 150\u00a0MWe sodium-cooled demonstration unit is slated for 2028.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A memorandum of understanding was signed on 25\u00a0August by Argonne director Peter Littlewood and Jong Kyung Kim, head of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). It covered \u201ca broad field of technical cooperation on nuclear science and technology\u201d, said Argonne, with the centrepiece being a $6.78\u00a0million deal for Argonne to take part in development of the Prototype Generation-IVSodium-cooled Fast Reactor (PGSFR).<\/p>\n

Argonne will support KAERI in developing the PGSFR reactor system, while Kepco E&C will work on the balance of plant. The goal is to secure licensing approval from South Korea\u2019s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission by the end of 2020\u00a0as a major milestone in a schedule that would see the unit operate from 2028. No site has been specified yet.<\/p>\n

The prototype would produce 150\u00a0MWe for the grid, but its main purpose is to demonstrate its fuel: PGSFR is to use metal fuel pins composed of low-enriched uranium and zirconium, and it can be subsequently reloaded with fuel that also contains transuranic elements produced in other reactors during power generation and which are usually treated as waste. According to an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) datasheet, the objective of the PGSFR project is to test the performance of this fuel, and show PGSFR\u2019s ability to transmute the transuranics.<\/p>\n

Transmutation means changing an element with a long radioactive half-life into one with a shorter half-life. By doing this, reactors like PGSFR have potential to reduce the burden of managing nuclear fuel used by other reactors and simplify waste disposal\u00a0\u2014 all while generating electricity.<\/p>\n

Argonne said, \u201cthe metal fuel technology base was developed at Argonne in the 1980s and 1990s; its inherent safety potential was demonstrated in the landmark tests conducted on the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) in April 1986. They demonstrated the safe shutdown and cooling of the reactor without operator action following a simulated loss-of-cooling accident\u201d. Both the Three Mile Island and Fukushima accidents saw reactor core damage after loss of cooling.<\/p>\n

The IAEA said PGSFR has a passive reactor shutdown system in addition to \u201ca combination of passive and active decay heat removal systems\u201d which give it \u201csufficient capacity to remove decay heat in all design basis events without operator action\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mark Peters of Argonne said, \u201cPGSFR is the world\u2019s first fast reactor that exploits inherent safety characteristics to prevent severe accidents\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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