The MIT Research Reactor (MITR) is evaluating the conversion from highly enriched uranium (HEU) to low enrichment uranium (LEU) fuel. In addition to the fuel element redesign from 15 to 18 plates per element, a reactor power upgraded from 6 MW to 7 MW is proposed in order to maintain the same reactor performance of the HEU core. Previous approaches in analyzing the impact of engineering uncerta...

The TIESTE-MINOSSE code, developed at the ENEA to preliminarily investigate core dynamics relevant to metal cooled fast reactor and ADS, has been implemented to analyse transients in the RC1 1 MW swimming pool TRIGA reactor existing at the Casaccia Centre. In the first part of the work, the TIESTE-MINOSSE improvement and validation on TRIGA dynamics is described. In particular, reactivity inser...

UNLABELLED Direct deposition of graphene layers on the flexible glass fiber surface to form the three-dimensional (3D) core-shell structures is offered using a two-heating reactor chemical vapor deposition system. The two-heating reactor is utilized to offer sufficient, well-proportioned floating C atoms and provide a facile way for low-temperature deposition. Graphene layers, which are control...

During loss-of-coolant (LOCA) accidents the primary reactor coolant system shall be maintained in a safe state so that the coolability of fuel rods was maintained and the emergency core cooling criteria must be met. These criteria were accepted originally for Western design reactors and the same criteria were applied in Hungary to the Paks NPP as well. However the WER type reactor has different...