The MELCOR Core (COR) package calculates the thermal response of the core and lower plenum internal structures, including the portion of the lower head directly below the core. The package also models the relocation of core and lower plenum structural materials during melting, slumping, and debris formation, including failure of the reactor vessel and ejection of debris into the reactor cavity....

We propose the use of a proton accelerator to run a slightly subcritical fast breeder and incinerator of minor actinides, and also the use of minor actinides to make a high bumup t%el, which can be burned in a reactor with a non-flattened core with a ratio of height to diameter (H/D= 1). By injecting medium-energy protons into a subcritical assembly, and by supplying external neutrons produced ...

One way to explore exotic nuclei is to study their structure by performing -ray spectroscopy. At the ILL, we exploit a high neutron flux reactor to induce the cold fission of actinide targets. In this process, fission products that cannot be accessed using standard spontaneous fission sources are produced with a yield allowing their detailed study using high resolution -ray spectroscopy. This i...

This paper presents the status of studies on transmutation of minor actinides (MA) and long-lived fission products (LLFP) in a fast reactor at JNC, which includes four areas of work: (a) design studies, (b) nuclear data measurement and evaluation, (c) fuel fabrication and irradiation test, (d) strategy studies. It was found that the mixed hybrid MA-loading method, where Np nuclide is dispersed ...

A natural nuclear fission reactor with a power output of 3-to 10 Terawatt at the center of the earth has been proposed as the energy source of the earth’s magnetic field. The proposal can be directly tested by a massive liquid scintillation detector that can detect the signature spectrum of antineutrinos from the geo-reactor as well as the direction of the antineutrino source. Such detectors ar...

The 250 kW TRIGA Mark II research reactor of the Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) has been in operation since 1966. The reactor went critical on 30 May 1966. It is a light water reactor, with solid fuel elements in which the zirconium hydride moderator is homogeneously distributed between enriched uranium. The reactor core consists of about 70 fuel elements, which are arranged in an annular lattice...

In the nuclear safety analysis, it is very important to be able to simulate the different transients that can occur in a nuclear power plant with a very high accuracy. The transient simulations involve both neutronic and thermalhydraulic calculations. One of the most used codes in nuclear industry is the TRAC-BF1 code, which has already been proved against different transients in many nuclear p...