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Japan: Mitsui Engineering & Ship Building Co (MES)
MES has worked cooperatively with IPPE in Russia to develop
Pb-Bi technology for neutron source target systems and
coolants for ADSR. MES also conducted independent Pb-Bi
flow loop research on corrosion behaviour of Japanese Steels,
Pb-Bi interaction with air and water, coolant conditioning
techniques and sensor development, and engineering
feasibility studies of ADSR and fast reactor designs.
Israel: The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Center
for Magnetohydrodynamic Studies (CMHDS)
CMHDS have conducted extensive R&D on liquid metal
thermal sciences They have two large scale facilities and have
conducted Pb and Pb-Bi circulation tests when propelled by
steam bubbles Also studies on the oxidation of steels by Pb
high temperature alloy.
Lead Fast Reactor - USA: Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
INL has obtained corrosion data from both Pb and Pb-Bi
operations at an experimental facility.
USA: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
LANL has conducted Pb alloy research and is investigating
kinetic modelling of corrosion with Oxygen control, Oxygen
sensor development, the operation of a materials test loop
and the corrosion test of US standard steels.
USA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
MIT has supported Pb and Pb-Bi reactor concepts for actinide
burning and electrical generation Research activities include
reactor physics, fuel management, reactor thermal hydraulics,
nuclear materials, structural engineering and coolant chemistry.
USA: SNS (Oak Ridge)
SNS: is an accelerator-based neutron source built by the US
Department of Energy. The pulsed proton beam is directed
onto a liquid mercury target.
Russia: Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE)
The IPPE has carried out a number of comparisons between
reactor designs using Na, Pb and Pb-Bi coolants.
Accelerator Spallation target Reactor core Coolant technology Fuel
management
European Union EUROTRANS Project: Partnership for assessing the feasibility of ADSR transmutation
Belgium
(SCK - CEN)
Switzerland
(Megapie)
Germany
(FZK)
Sweden
(Lund – ESS)
Japan
(CREIPI)
Japan
(JNC)
MYRRHA: Multi-purpose hybrid research LBE cooled 50 MW ADSR
Construction and
operation of a 920
kg LBE spallation
target for 1 MW of
beam power
State-of-the-art
facility, 5 MW
pulsed spallation
source with
extremely high flux
Studies on core
design, neutronics
and safety systems
materials and
corrosion studies
Feasibility studies
of FBR systems with
innovative Pb-Bi
heat exchanger,
corrosion studies
and system
thermohydraulics
Assessment of
corrosion resistant
methodologies
& research on
advanced alloys for
Pb-Bi cooled systems
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