Nuclear Power Technology Development Section

Technical Documents Published by NPTDS

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List of IAEA-TECDOCs published in 2006:


TECDOC-1531

Fast Reactor Database 2006 Update

This publication contains detailed design data and main operational data on experimental, prototype, demonstration, and commercial size LMFRs. Each LMFR plant is characterized by about 500 parameters: physics, thermohydraulics, thermomechanics, by design and technical data, and by relevant sketches. The focus is on practical issues that are useful to engineers, scientists, managers, university students and professors with complete technical information of a total of 37 LMFR plants.


TECDOC-1520

Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Heavy Liquid Metal Thermal Hydraulics

Proceedings of a technical meeting held in Karlsruhe, Germany, 28-31 October 2003.


TECDOC-1499

Intercomparison of techniques for inspection and diagnostics of heavy water reactor pressure tubes flaw detection and characterization

This publication reports on the first phase of the IAEA Coordinated Research Project (CRP) on Intercomparison of Techniques for HWR Pressure Tube Inspection and Diagnostics, dealing with flaw characterization by in-situ non-destructive examination (NDE) techniques. The participating laboratories prepared pressure tube (PT) samples containing artificial hidden flaws resembling real defects of concern. All samples were then inspected from the inside surface, as in real conditions. The originating laboratories subsequently analysed the sample inspection reports from investigating laboratories and compared the NDE flaw sizing estimates with their true values. Thus, the most successful NDE methods for detection, location and sizing of various types of flaws in PTs were identified. This publication details how the research was conducted and documents results from the flaw detection and characterization activities.


TECDOC-1496

Thermophysical properties database of materials for light water reactors and heavy water reactors

This database is intended to serve as a useful source of information on thermophysical properties data for water cooled reactor analyses. In particular, it aims at achieving improvements in safety and economics of future plants by helping to remove the need for large design margins to account for limitations of data and methods. The database has been developed into an internationally available Internet database (THERPRO) at Hanyang University (Republic of Korea), and now provides various materials properties data and an interactively accessible information resource and communications medium for researchers and engineers.


TECDOC-1487

Advanced nuclear plant design options to cope with external events

Developed through direct cooperation with the designers of 14 advanced NPPs, this TECDOC defines, collates, and presents the state-of-the-art in design features and approaches used to protect nuclear plants from external event impacts, making a focus on NPPs with evolutionary and, when possible, innovative designs. The TECDOC is designed to reflect best practices in member states and to provide technical and information background to assist designers of advanced NPPs in defining consistent strategies regarding selected design and site evaluation issues in relation to extreme external events. The issues addressed include, inter alia, siting, hazard definition and event combination criteria, reactor and plant design including inherent and passive safety features and active and passive systems, component qualification, and external event PSA.


TECDOC-1485

Status of innovative small and medium sized reactor designs 2005: reactors with conventional refuelling schemes

The objective of this report is to provide Member States, including those just considering the initiation of nuclear power programmes, and those already having practical experience in nuclear power, with a balanced and objective information on important development trends and objectives of innovative SMRs for a variety of uses, on the achieved state-of-the-art in design and technology development for such reactors and on their design and regulatory status. The report is intended for many categories of stakeholders, including regulators, electricity producers, designers, non-electrical producers and policy makers. The main chapters of this report, addressed to all abovementioned groups of stakeholders, provide a summary of major specifications, applications and user-related special features of innovative SMRs. The annexes, intended mostly for designers and technical managers, provide detailed design descriptions of innovative SMRs focusing on their a potential to provide solutions in the areas of concern associated with future nuclear energy systems.