Recent Design Developments Of The MYRRHA ADS Project In Belgium

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    Abstract

    The MYRRHA project started in 1998 by SCK•CEN in collaboration with Ion Beam Applications as an upgrade of the ADONIS project, to become a MTR for material and fuel research, to study the feasibility of transmutation of Minor Actinides and Long-Lived Fission Products arising from the reprocessing of radioactive waste and finally to demonstrate at a reasonable power scale the principle of the ADS. The MYRRHA design has progressed through various framework programmes of the European Commission in the context of Partitioning and Transmutation. The most recent version, called FASTEF, still conceived as a flexible irradiation facility, now able to work in both sub-critical and critical modes. FASTEF has been developed within the CDT project (2009-2012). In this paper, we present the most recent developments of the MYRRHA design in terms of accelerator, primary system, reactor building and plant layout.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationICAPP13 - 2013 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants
    Place of PublicationKorea, Republic Of
    StatePublished - Apr 2013
    Event2013 - ICAPP - International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants - Korean Nuclear Society, Jeju
    Duration: 14 Apr 201318 Apr 2013

    Conference

    Conference2013 - ICAPP - International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants
    Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
    CityJeju
    Period2013-04-142013-04-18

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