CANES paper selected as Best Paper of 2009 by ANS Thermal Hydraulic Division

"Thermal Hydraulics of PWRs Transitioning to High Performance Annular Fuel" (Bo Feng, Julien Beccherle, Pavel Hejzlar, and Mujid S. Kazimi) was presented by Bo Feng at the NUTHOS-7 Conference in May 2009.

MITEI Spotlight: "Nuclear power plants: Shaping new fuels for higher efficiency"

New CANES Reports: "A High Efficiency and Environmentally Friendly Nuclear Reactor (HEER) for Electricity and Hydrogen"

Executive Summary. This project has examined approaches for the design of nuclear power plants to address future needs for electricity, potable water and high temperature heat through a highly efficient and environmentally friendly reactor (HEER). HEER reactors provide high power output and energy conversion efficiency, with minimum production of spent fuel and waste. These advanced reactors utilize innovative fuel designs to enable efficient fuel utilization; they heat the coolant to a higher temperature than typical water cooled reactors using an integral vessel for the reactor and steam generation in order to maximize the power plant efficiency and safety. The spent fuel production rate is reduced by a factor of about 2 in comparison to today’s reactors in Europe and Japan. Finally, to be ready for deployment in the Middle East, the new reactor concept exhibits an added level of proliferation resistance, through less frequent refueling and a higher level of fuel burnup, hence radioactivity, at discharge. Read more >>

Other Recent Reports from CANES

Joshua J. Whitman and Mujid S. Kazimi, Thermal Hydraulic Design Of A Salt-Cooled Highly Efficient Environmentally Friendly Reactor (August 2009).

Matthew J. Memmott, Pavel Hejzlar, and Jacopo Buongiorno, Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of Innovative Fuel Configurations for the Sodium Fast Reactor (August 2009).

Aydın Karahan and Jacopo Buongiorno, Modeling of Thermo-Mechanical and Irradiation Behavior of Metallic and Oxide Fuels for Sodium Fast Reactors (August 2009).

Sapiie and M. J. Driscoll, A Review of Geology-Related Aspects of Deep Borehole Disposal of Nuclear Waste (August 2009).

Charles W. Forsberg and Mujid S. Kazimi, Nuclear Hydrogen Using High-Temperature Electrolysis and Light-Water Reactors for Peak Electricity Production (April 2009). Download Report (pdf)

Yangbo Du and John E. Parsons, Update on the Cost of Nuclear Power (May 2009). Download Report (pdf)