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Joint NEA project performs high-burnup test
An article in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s July news bulletin noted that a first test has been completed for the High Burnup Experiments in Reactivity Initiated Accident (HERA) project. The project aim is to understand the performance of light water reactor fuel at high burnup under reactivity-initiated accidents (RIA).
Günther Kessler, Ulrich von Möllendorff
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 11 | Number 2 | March 1987 | Pages 374-399
Technical Paper | Fusion Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST87-A25015
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An introduction to and overview of conceptual system designs for heavy-ion beam driven inertial confinement fusion power generation is presented. The basic properties and parameters of the three main system components-the pellet, the driver, and the reactor chamber-are treated with emphasis on their interrelations. Some technical details are discussed for reactor chambers but not for pellets and drivers, for which considerable specialized literature exists. A few published system designs are briefly presented. Environmental and safety properties are considered, and costs are discussed.