Nuclear Power Technology Development Section

TECDOC-985

Accelerator-driven systems: energy generation and transmutation of nuclear waste (status report)

This status report provides an overview of ongoing development activities, different concepts being developed and their project status, as well as typical development trends.

TECDOC-984

Advances in heavy water reactor technology

The IAEA publishes reports on status and progress in HWR design and technology every few years with the goal of presenting balanced and objective information on design and technology advances. This is the third TECDOC in this series. It describes progress in new designs, pressure tube technology, in-service inspection, fuel and fueling machines and fuel options.

TECDOC-917

Potential for Nuclear Desalination as a Possible Source of Low Cost Potable Water in North Africa, (Arabic Version)

TECDOC-898

Options Identification Programme for Demonstration of Nuclear Desalination, (Arabic Version).

TECDOC-978

Fuel performance and fission product behaviour in gas cooled reactors

Report of a CRP on Validation of Predictive Methods for Fuel and Fission Product Be-haviour, which reviewed and documented the status of the experimental database and of the predictive methods for GCR fuel performance and fission product behaviour; and which verified and validated methodologies for the prediction of fuel performance and fission product transport.

TECDOC-977

Integral design concepts of advanced water cooled reactors

The current status of the design, safety and operational issues of integral reactors and recommendations for areas for future development.

TECDOC-968

Status of advanced light water cooled reactor designs: 1996

The IAEA publishes reports on status and progress in LWR design and technology every few years with the goal of presenting balanced and objective information on design and technology advances. This status report presents the rational and basic motivations that lead to a continuing development of nuclear technology, an overview of the world wide status of current LWRs, the present market situation, and desired characteristics for fu-ture plants. The report also provides a description of utility requirements that governed the development of new design, the situation with regard to enhanced safety objectives, description of development activities and a presentation of the various reactor designs using a uniform format for their description.

TECDOC-965

Design approaches for heating reactors

Progress in the development of reactors for supplying low temperature heat, currently of interest for seawater desalination.

TECDOC-962

Small reactors with simplified design

Proceedings of a TCM held in Canada in May 1995 to discuss the status of designs and design requirements related to small reactors for diverse applications.

TECDOC-949

Thermophysical properties of materials for water cooled reactors

Report from a CRP, which collected and systemized a thermophysical properties data-base for light and heavy water reactor materials under normal operating, transient and accident conditions.

TECDOC-948

Status report on actinide and fission product transmutation studies

An up-to-date general overview of current and planned research on transmutation.

TECDOC-946

Acoustic signal processing for the detection of sodium boiling or sodium-water reac-tions in liquid metal fast reactors

A summary of the work performed under a CRP carried out from 1990 to 1995. It was the continuation of an earlier CRP entitled Signal Processing Techniques for Sodium Boiling Noise Detection (1984-1989).

TECDOC-942

Thermodynamic and Economic evaluation of co-production plants for electricity and potable water

The IAEA carried out a study to establish methodologies for allocating costs to the two final products of co-production plants based on thermodynamic criteria and to enable economic ranking of co-production plant alternatives. This publication describes meth-odologies and presents the results obtained from analysing a reference case

TECDOC-940

Floating nuclear energy plants for seawater desalination

Proceedings of a TCM on Floating Nuclear Plants for Seawater Desalination, held in the Russian Federation in May 1995.

TECDOC-936

Terms for describing new, advanced nuclear power plants

The development of new nuclear power plant designs spans a wide range of alternatives. Some represent only small extensions of existing designs, while others incorporate more significant modifications and departures for such designs. This report presents a precise explanation of the terms used, to avoid inconsistencies.

TECDOC-933

Creep-fatigue damage rules for advanced fast reactor design

Proceedings of a TCM held in Manchester, United Kingdom, 11-13 June 1996.

TECDOC-923

Non-electric applications of nuclear energy

Proceedings from the AGM on non-electric applications of nuclear energy held in Indo-nesia in November 1995, which reviewed and assessed the present status and recent pro-gress made in systems and processes for nuclear heat applications and associated reac-tor development.

IAEA-Computer Manual Series No. 12

Methodology for Economic Evaluation of Cogeneration/Desalination Options: A User’s Manual

Between 1992 and 1994 the IAEA provided assistance to five North African countries to investigate site-specific applications of nuclear energy for desalination. This manual is designed to facilitate workshops and provide the user with instructions for use and inter-pretation of a spreadsheet methodology that models many types of nuclear/fossil electric power and heat sources of varying sizes depending on site specific demands.