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Conference Article: Status of the new nuclear energy systems study in CIAE

D. Ding, Z. Luo, M. Xu

Abstract

The nuclear energy civil-application has been started in China. To meet the long-term sustainable primary energy supply it could be envisaged that the nuclear power systems will be developed in large scale. Following three key points must be satisfied by the future nuclear energy systems:

• more safer nuclear energy systems than recent those should be developed to decrease the risk of core-melten and unforeseen release of radioactive materials;
• long lived minor actinides and long lived fission products must be safely treated to assure a proper environment;
• uranium resource should be sufficiently utilized.

In order to meet above general requirements, the fast reactor technology development has been launched and the basic researches of Accelerator Driven Subcritical facility (ADS) system has been started in China. The activity of the construction of the China Experimental Fast Reactor and plan for next step, some calculation results on core physics study of ADS, some results on target physics and a proposed verification facility are briefed in the paper.

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key words: Fast Neutron Spectrum Systems, Nuclear Technology

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Reference:

Proceedings of a Committee Meeting (TCM) on “Core Physics and Engineering Aspects of Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems for Energy Generation and Transmutation” held in Argonne, Illinois, U.S.A., 28 November - 1 December 2000

International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)

IAEA-TECDOC--1356, pp:55-70