Small Nuclear Reactors (SNR) can provide climate-neutral, stable electricity and heating if located in people’s neighborhoods close to dwellings. The extensive use of SNR would reduce capacity requirements for energy transmission systems increase the overall stability grids. However, public fear location their homes. This paper hypothesizes that acceptance neighborhood is contingent upon knowle...

1. Throughout its 52-year history nuclear power has been mainly used in industrialized countries. Of the world’s 441 currently operating nuclear power reactors, 403 (or 91%) are in either OECD countries or countries with economies in transition. In terms of electrical generating capacity, 349 GW(e) out of 368 GW(e), or 95% of nuclear generating capacity is installed in these countries. In terms...

Control rods are used in nuclear reactors to control fission the core. Different reactor designs must use different rod materials because of neutrons that can be found at various energies. These materials, which made chemical compounds such as B4C, ZrB2, TiB2 or HfB2 absorb neutrons, have absorption properties for In this study, Akkuyu Nuclear Reactors were investigated. It has been taken into ...

Flow induced vibrations are an important concern in the design of nuclear reactors. One of the possible designs of the 4th generation nuclear reactors is a lead-cooled fast reactor of which MYYRHA is a prototype. The combination of high liquid density, flow velocity, low pitch-todiameter ratio and the absence of grid spacers makes this design prone to flow induced vibrations. Although most vibr...

In this work we present an accurate parameterization of the anti-neutrino flux produced by the isotopes 235U, 239Pu, and 241Pu in nuclear reactors. We determine the coefficients of this parameterization, as well as their covariance matrix, by performing a fit to spectra inferred from experimentally measured beta spectra. Subsequently we show that flux shape uncertainties play only a minor role ...