Nuclear Power Technology Development Section

TECDOC-1326

Design Concepts of nuclear desalination plants

This publication presents material on the current status of nuclear desalination activities and preliminary design concepts of nuclear desalination plants, as made available to the IAEA by various Member States. It is aimed at planners, designers and potential end-users in those Member States interested in further assessment of nuclear desalination.

TECDOC-1319

Thorium Fuel Utilization: Options and Trends (Proceeding of three IAEA Meetings held in 1997, 1998 and 1999)

The use of thorium-based fuel cycles has been studied in the past, but on a much smaller scale as compared to uranium or uranium/plutonium cycles. Although based on boundary conditions and needs quite different from the present ones, those studies have permitted to identify many incentives for the use of thorium fuel. The TECDOC provides an assessment of the current status of this fuel cycle, its applications worldwide, its economic benefits, and its perceived advantages vis-à-vis other nuclear fuel cycles.

TECDOC-1318

Harmonization and Validation of Fast Reactor Termomechanical and Thermohy-draulic Codes and Relations Using Experimental Data

The TECDOC is the final report of an IAEA Coordinated Research Project initiated in 1996 aiming at examining the ability of computer codes to predict the structural damage caused by thermal striping in areas of different temperature coolant mixing.

TRS-407

HWRs - Status and Projected Development

This report presents the status of HWR advanced technology in the areas of safety, fuel cycle flexibility and sustainable development, and economics, and the advanced technology developments needed in the following two decades to achieve the vision of the advanced HWR.

TECDOC-1290

Improving Economics and Safety of Water-Cooled Reactors: Proven Means and New Approaches

With increasingly liberalized electricity markets around the world, and particularly the success of low-cost combined cycle gas turbines, incentives have increased for identifying means to achieve better NPP economics. The task on “Optimizing Technology, Safety and Economics of Water-Cooled Reactors” was carried out during 1999-2002. The task included collaboration with eleven industrial organizations and four government agencies as well as the OECD-NEA and the European Commission. Its objective was to emphasize the need, and to identify approaches, for new nuclear plants with water-cooled reactors to achieve competitiveness while maintaining high levels of safety. To achieve the largest possible cost reductions, proven means for reducing costs must be fully utilized, and new approaches (such as improved technologies, risk informed methods for evaluating the safety benefit of design features, and international consensus regarding safety requirements so that standardized designs can be built in several countries without major re-design efforts) should be developed and implemented. Proven means and new approaches are examined using the full breadth and capabilities of the Agency, including expertise in the Nuclear Power Engineering Section and the Planning and Economic Studies Section of the Department of Nuclear Energy, and in the Division of Nuclear Installation Safety of the Department of Nuclear Safety.

TECDOC-1289

Comparative Assessment of Thermophysical and Thermohydraulic Characteristics of Lead, Lead-bismuth and Sodium Coolants

The TECDOC selects, reviews and documents the information on lead and lead bismuth alloy coolants. It addresses thermalhydraulics issues, as well as physical and chemical properties. It attempts an assessment of these coolants and performs comparisons with the respective sodium characteristics.

TECDOC-1288

Verification of Analysis Methods for Predicting the Behavior of Seismically Isolated Nuclear Structures

The TECDOC is the final report of an IAEA Coordinated Research Project initiated in 1996 aiming at the investigation of the base isolation for nuclear structures. The TECDOC summarizes the results of the computer codes and methodology validation and verification studies (comparisons with test data).

TECDOC-1281

Natural Circulation Data and Methods for Advanced Water Cooled Nuclear Power Plant Designs

Proceedings of a TCM on Nuclear Circulation Data and Methods for Innovative Nuclear and Power Plants Design. The objective of this TCM were to assess the current base of experimental data and the applicability of current methodologies for computing natural convection phenomena in innovative reactor design, and to develop perspectives on needed improvements in models and supporting experimental data. This TECDOC provides the papers presented and summarized the discussions. The papers and discussions addressed both evolutionary and innovative designs for light and heavy water reactors.

TECDOC-1245

Performance of Operating and Advanced LWR Designs

Proceedings of a TCM hosted by E.ON Energie AG (Munich) in October 2000. The TCM provided a forum for information exchange on design features and technologies incorporated into LWR plants commissioned within about the last 15-20 years, and into evolutionary LWR designs still under development, for achieving performance improvements with due regard to stringent safety requirements and objectives. It also addressed on-going technology development expected to achieve further improvements and/or significant cost reductions.

C&S Paper Series 14/P

Small and Medium Sized Reactors: Status and Prospects

Proceedings of an International Seminar held in Cairo, Egypt in May 2001 organized by the IAEA in co-operation with the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the World Nuclear Association.

AEN/NEA and IAEA 2002 Publication

Innovative Nuclear Reactor Development, - Opportunities for International Co-operation

This report has been authored and produced by the “Three-Agency Study”, a joint project of the IEA, the NEA and the IAEA. The conclusions and recommendations contained in the report are the work of all three agencies.

TRS-410

Market Potential for Non-electrical Application of Nuclear Energy

The report assesses the market potential of non-electric application of nuclear energy in the near (before 2020) and long (2020-2050) terms. The main non-electrical applications included are district heating, desalination (of sea, brackish and waste water) industrial heat supply, ship propulsion and energy supply for space applications. A less detailed assessment of some innovative applications (e.g. hydrogen production and coal gasification) is also provided.

TCS 21

WWER-1000 Reactor Simulator: Workshop Material

Workshop material presenting the WWER-1000 Reactor Department Simulator from the Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute, Russia