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NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS in the COUNTRIES of the EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY (Second Edition)
!:£k2üi.ïK!lr*Üfa"HÏ mm h«tk .-Vi»,····» WWÍM This document was prepared under the sponsorship of the Commission of the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM). Jfc* Mmm Neither the EURATOM Commission, its contractors nor any person acting on their behalf m tf t * iiii «lai OCR r Uli íj ;QJRÌ m Io — Make any warranty or representation, express or implied, with respect to the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of the information contained in this document, or that the ï H use of any information, apparatus, method, or process disclosed in this document mav not infringe privately owned rights; or 2o — Assume any liability with respect to the use of, or for damages resulting from t'. any information, apparatus, method or process disclosed in this document. EUR 1 8 3 .e NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY (Second Edition). European Atomic Energy Community - EURATOM Directorate-General for Industry and Economy Brussels, 1 January 1963 - 43 pages This survey features all the specifically nuclear installations which already exist, which are under construction, the construction of which has been decided or which are being planned in the member countries of Euratom. It comprises, for each installation, a short description limited to its main characteristics; it also mentions the more important enterprises which are known to have participated in the building of these installations. EUR 1 8 3 . e NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY (Second Edition). European Atomic Energy Community - EURATOM Directorate-General for Industry and Economy Brussels, 1 January 1963 - 43 pages This survey features all the specifically nuclear installations which already exist, which are under construction, the construction of which has been decided or which are being planned in the member countries of Euratom. -
Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR), a High-Performance Material Test Reactor in Cadarache, France
The Swedish-French collaboration on the research reactors ASTRID & JHR Prof. Christophe Demazière Chalmers University of Technology Department of Applied Physics Division of Nuclear Engineering [email protected] Background − the ESS project • ESS: European Spallation Source – a European Union facility. • Will be built in Lund. • Participation of France is formalized in a contract between France and Sweden. • Sweden has to spend 400 MSEK on joint research in subjects relevant to France (energy and environment). • Out of this, 100 MSEK is devoted to fission-based nuclear energy. Background – the European research program • Vision: Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP). • Planned facilities: – Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR), a high-performance material test reactor in Cadarache, France. Start of operation: 2014. – MYRRHA facility in Mol, Belgium, a fast spectrum irradiation facility working as an ADS. Start of operation: ca. 2023. – ASTRID (Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration), a prototype Gen-IV sodium-cooled fast reactor to be built in France. Start of operation: ca. 2020. – VHTR, a first-of-a kind Very High Temperature Reactor for, among others, hydrogen production. VR Multi-project Grant in Nuclear Energy Research • 3 multi-grant projects granted by the Swedish Research Council in the spring of 2012 (projects in collaboration with CEA, France – French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission): – DEMO-JHR (coordinator: Prof. Christophe Demazière, Chalmers): 3 PhD projects. – ASTRID -
The Jules Horowitz Reactor Project, a Driver for Revival of the Research Reactor Community
THE JULES HOROWITZ REACTOR PROJECT, A DRIVER FOR REVIVAL OF THE RESEARCH REACTOR COMMUNITY P. PERE, C. CAVAILLER, C. PASCAL AREVA TA CEA Cadarache - Etablissement d'AREVA TA - Chantier RJH - MOE - BV2 - BP n° 9 – 13115 Saint Paul lez Durance - France CS 50497 - 1100, rue JR Gauthier de la Lauzière, 13593 Aix en Provence cedex 3 – France ABSTRACT The first concrete of the nuclear island for the Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR) was poured at the end of July 2009 and construction is ongoing. The JHR is the largest new platform for irradiation experiments supporting Generation II and III reactors, Generation IV technologies, and radioisotope production. This facility, composed of a unique grouping of workshops, hot cells and hot laboratories together with a first -rate MTR research reactor, will ensure that the process, from preparations for irradiation experiments through post-irradiation non-destructive examination, is completed expediently, efficiently and, of course, safely. In addition to the performance requirements to be met in terms of neutron fluxes on the samples (5x1014 n.cm-2/sec-1 E> 1 MeV in core and 3,6x1014 n.cm-2/sec-1 E<0.625 eV in the reflector) and the JHR’s considerable irradiation capabilities (more than 20 experiments and one-tenth of irradiation area for simultaneous radioisotope production), the JHR is the first MTR to be built since the end of the 1960s, making this an especially challenging project. The presentation will provide an overview of the reactor, hot cells and laboratories and an outline of the key milestones in the project schedule, including initial criticality in early 2014 and radioisotope production in 2015. -
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Energy Business Technology Strategy Yukihiko Kazao Executive Officer and Corporate Senior Vice President Energy Systems & Solutions Company Chief Technology Executive Toshiba Corporation October 18, 2016 © 2016 Toshiba Corporation Energy Business Technology Strategy Pursue clean energy and the related management system グリーンエネルギーの追求とそのマネジメントシステムでand aim to realize sustainable energy for society 持続可能なエネルギー社会の実現を目指す Variable power sources Generate Low carbon Nuclear Hydro- Geothermal Solar Hydrogen thermal power power power power Wind power Transmit Store ・Hydropower ・variable speed Rechargeable batteries Hydrogen water pumps Transformers Short-term Long-term storage storage Transmission Substations Storage and distribution systems Smart use Factories Transport Homes Buildings © 2016 Toshiba Corporation 2 Advancing Toward a Society Supported by Sustainable Energy I. Green energy ・ That pursues the world‘s highest level of safety in nuclear power ・ That aims for zero emissions by introducing high efficiency systems and carbon capture technologies in thermal power ・ That contributes to the stabilization of the power system with hydropower II. Energy management ・ Use next-generation technologies to pursue optimal control of the supply and demand balance Ⅲ. Cutting-edge technologies ・ Lead the world in cutting-edge technologies © 2016 Toshiba Corporation 3 Toshiba Group’s Nuclear Power Plants Global expansion with two reactors offering the world's highest safety levels High capacity BWR: ABWR Innovative PWR: AP1000™ ・ Dynamic + static safety -
Cadarache, Marcoule, Saclay
2020 INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL IN NUCLEAR ENGINEERING Neutronics and thermal-hydraulics coupling for SFR simulation Cadarache, Marcoule, Saclay - France 6 Doctoral-level Courses in Nuclear Engineering From January 13 to February 7, 2020 COURTESY OF: CEA/DEN, AREVA • GÉOLANE • AREVA CEA/DEN, OF: COURTESY Please visit our website: http://www-instn.cea.fr Computer simulation of displacement cascade Pin-type fuel element of Gas Fast-cooled Reactor (GFR) Neutronics calculation of EPR core with APOLLO3 Actinide complex solvated by extraction molecule Large scale bubble simulation ABOUT THE SCHOOL • The National Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology (INSTN) is organizing the International School in Nuclear Engineering, promoting knowledge in the field of nuclear sciences at a high education level. • The 2020 edition will offer 6 one-week advanced courses in nuclear engineering to be held in France (Cadarache, Marcoule, or Saclay), in January and February 2020. • The courses are designed for young researchers, PhD students, post-doctorates and engineers, already having a Master of Science in nuclear engineering as a background. They present the international state-of-the-art in the main topics of nuclear engineering: reactor core physics, thermal hydraulics, materials, fuels, fuel cycle, nuclear waste. 3 ECTS will be awarded for each successfully completed course (one week). • Lecturers are internationally known experts mostly from CEA, the leading research organisation in France for nuclear energy. OUTLINE PROGRAMME OF COURSES For each course, technical visits of CEA facilities are planned. n Reactor Core Physics: Deterministic and Monte Carlo Methods (C. Diop, J. Tommasi, J-F. Vidal) • Chain reaction and neutron balance • Neutron slowing-down and resonance absorption, self-shielding modelling • The neutron transport equation and calculation schemes: the steady-state integro- differential transport equation. -
Nuclear Proliferation in Plain Sight: Japan’S Plutonium Fuel Cycle–A Technical and Economic Failure but a Strategic Success
Volume 14 | Issue 5 | Number 2 | Article ID 4860 | Mar 01, 2016 The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Nuclear Proliferation in Plain Sight: Japan’s Plutonium Fuel Cycle–A Technical and Economic Failure But a Strategic Success Shaun Burnie, Frank Barnaby, with Tom Clements, Aileen Mioko Smith and Kendra Ulrich Précis escalate in East Asia, Japan's stockpiling of thousands of kilograms of weapons usable th Five years after the March 11 2011 plutonium with no credible peaceful use is earthquake and tsunami destroyed fourdriving further proliferation in the region. Two reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi site, Japan's years before the extension of the U.S. Japan nuclear industry remains in crisis. Three nuclear cooperation agreement, the legal basis st reactors are operating as of February 1 2016, for the nations plutonium program, the time for a reduction of 94% of reactors since 2011. a rethink, long past, is more urgent than ever. Prospects for a restart of even half of the 54 reactors formerly operating are almost zero. Introduction For decades the center of the nations nuclear and energy policy was based on the utilization In the twilight world of Japan's nuclear of plutonium to fuel fast breeder reactors, program, where nothing is what it seems, the together with the use of plutonium MOX fuel in MONJU fast breeder reactor symbolizes a commercial power reactors. The program has nuclear policy that is based on a dangerous absorbed trillions of yen yet has utterly failed fantasy, but remains entrenched within the to deliver the energy security used to justify it. -
Nuclear France Abroad History, Status and Prospects of French Nuclear Activities in Foreign Countries
Mycle Schneider Consulting Independent Analysis on Energy and Nuclear Policy 45, allée des deux cèdres Tél: 01 69 83 23 79 91210 Draveil (Paris) Fax: 01 69 40 98 75 France e-mail: [email protected] Nuclear France Abroad History, Status and Prospects of French Nuclear Activities in Foreign Countries Mycle Schneider International Consultant on Energy and Nuclear Policy Paris, May 2009 This research was carried out with the support of The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (www.cigionline.org) V5 About the Author Mycle Schneider works as independent international energy nuclear policy consultant. Between 1983 and April 2003 Mycle Schneider was executive director of the energy information service WISE-Paris. Since 2000 he has been an advisor to the German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety. Since 2004 he has also been in charge of the Environment and Energy Strategies Lecture of the International Master of Science for Project Management for Environmental and Energy Engineering at the French Ecole des Mines in Nantes, France. In 2007 he was appointed as a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), based at Princeton University, USA (www.fissilematerials.org). In 2006-2007 Mycle Schneider was part of a consultants’ consortium that assessed nuclear decommissioning and waste management funding issues on behalf of the European Commission. In 2005 he was appointed as nuclear security specialist to advise the UK Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM). Mycle Schneider has given evidence and held briefings at Parliaments in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, UK and at the European Parliament. -
Political Economy of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe
J-Economy, J-Corporation and J-Power since 1990 From Mutual Gain to Neoliberal Redistribution Enno Berndt 3 J-Power: Political Economy of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe Summary 3.1 Personal Blind Spot. – 3.1.1 Earthquakes and Nuclear Power Plants in Japan. – 3.1.2 The ‘Nuclear Earthquake Disaster’ of March 2011. – 3.1.3 Historical Parallels. – 3.2 Cui Bono? Interests, Power and Nuclear Power Generation in Japan. – 3.2.1 Ownership and Business Model of the Electric Power Industry in Japan. – 3.2.2 State Political Interests: Hidden Military Budget? – 3.2.3 Industrial Policy Interests: Infrastructure Export. – 3.3 Fundamental Problems of a NPP-Centred Electricity Industry. – 3.3.1 Inflexible and Costly Control of Power Supply. – 3.3.2 Nuclear Fuel Cycle Unclosed. – 3.3.3 Actual Costs of Nuclear Power Generation: Complex, Hidden and High. – 3.3.4 Liberalising Japan’s Electricity Market: Making Nuclear Power a Defensive Wall. – 3.3.5. Nuclear Power as a Rescue from Global Warming? – 3.4 Future Scenarios: Politics, Market and Technology. 3.1 Personal Blind Spot In hindsight one knows better, as the saying goes. But when trying to understand something that has already happened, practical science aims primarily to discover new contexts, reveal still unseen consequences and outline alternatives for acting. The objects of such science are contested terrain since the search for how and why something happened is pervaded by interests. And the searchers themselves are involved in power relations and conflicts. Ignoring and obscuring critical events help to protect pre- dominant actors and their interest. -
Operational and Decommissioning Experience with Fast Reactors
IAEA-TECDOC-1405 Operational and decommissioning experience with fast reactors Proceedings of a technical meeting held in Cadarache, France, 11–15 March 2002 August 2004 IAEA-TECDOC-1405 Operational and decommissioning experience with fast reactors Proceedings of a technical meeting held in Cadarache, France, 11–15 March 2002 August 2004 The originating Section of this publication in the IAEA was: Nuclear Power Technology Development Section International Atomic Energy Agency Wagramer Strasse 5 P.O. Box 100 A-1400 Vienna, Austria OPERATIONAL AND DECOMMISSIONING EXPERIENCE WITH FAST REACTORS IAEA, VIENNA, 2004 IAEA-TECDOC-1405 ISBN 92–0–107804–8 ISSN 1011–4289 © IAEA, 2004 Printed by the IAEA in Austria August 2004 FOREWORD The fast reactor, which can generate electricity and breed additional fissile material for future fuel stocks, is a resource that will be needed when economic uranium supplies for the advanced water cooled reactors or other thermal-spectrum options diminish. Further, the fast-fission fuel cycle in which material is recycled offers the flexibility needed to contribute decisively towards solving the problem of growing ‘spent’ fuel inventories by greatly reducing the volume of high level waste that must be disposed of in long term repositories. This is a waste management option that also should be retained for future generations. The fast reactor has been the subject of research and development programmes in a number of countries for more than 50 years. Now, despite early sharing and innovative worldwide research and development, ongoing work is confined to China, France, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the Russian Federation. Information generated worldwide will be needed in the future. -
Audition Sur Les Conséquences De L'arrêt Du Programme ASTRID
Paris, le 25 novembre 2020 Audition sur les conséquences de l’arrêt du programme ASTRID Audition de Madame Valérie Faudon, déléguée générale de la Société française d’énergie nucléaire (Sfen) par les parlementaires de l’Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques (OPECST). Tout d’abord je souhaiterais vous remercier, au nom de la Sfen, de nous recevoir aujourd’hui. La Sfen est une société savante, qui rassemble les scientifiques et ingénieurs du nucléaire depuis 1973. Notre raison d’être est de « permettre aux esprits curieux de se faire de nouvelles idées sur le nucléaire » et notre nouvelle signature est « faire avancer le nucléaire ». La décision de l’arrêt du programme ASTRID et de la mise en place d’un nouveau programme structurant « Promouvoir une économie circulaire au sein de la filière » a été actée par la signature du Contrat stratégique de la filière nucléaire le 28 janvier 2019. Pour rappel, le Comité stratégique de la filière nucléaire (CSFN), qui a rédigé ce projet, a, comme tous les comités stratégiques de filière, une configuration tripartite : organisations syndicales – Etat – Industriels. Parmi ces derniers, on peut citer EDF, le CEA, et Orano. Il est important de rappeler qu’il y a eu consensus, au sein des industriels de la filière, sur cet accord. Au niveau de la Sfen, cette décision a d’abord été une déception pour beaucoup de nos adhérents, attachés à l’excellence de la recherche nucléaire française dans le domaine des réacteurs à neutrons rapides. L’avant-projet sommaire (APS) d’ASTRID a reçu en 2016 le grand prix Sfen, qui est la plus haute récompense française en matière de recherche scientifique sur le nucléaire. -
Nuclear Energy Systems Business Operation
Nuclear Energy Systems Business Operation June 3, 2010 Akira Sawa Director, Executive Vice President, General Manager, Nuclear Energy Systems Headquarters 1 Contents 1. Highlights in Corporate News, 2009-2010 2. Results of the 2008 Business Plan 3. Overview of the 2010 Business Plan 4. Operation in Global Business 5. Operation in Domestic Light Water Reactor Business 6. Operation in Nuclear Fuel Cycle Business 7. Value Chain Innovation 2 1. Highlights in Corporate News, 2009-2010 Projects Delivered Realizing Major Projects The latest PWR power plant 3rd US-APWR selected started commercial operation Hokkaido Electric Dominion Resources Tomari unit 3 North Anna unit 3 (Dec 2009) (May 2010) Inheriting plant Plant export starts in technologies Tomari unit 3 (right) earnest Existing North Anna unit 1/2 1st plutonium thermal operation Large-scale order received started in Japan for nuclear fuel cycle Kyushu Electric Japan Nuclear Fuel Genkai unit 3 Limited (Dec 2009) Rokkasho MOX fuel Shikoku Electric fabrication plant Ikata unit 3 (June 2009) (Mar 2010) Genkai No. 3 reactor Rokkasho MOX fuel fabrication plant MOX fuel loaded (J-MOX) Nuclear Fuel Cycle Contribution to Japanese Advanced nuclear fuel cycle 3 2. Results of the 2008 Business Plan Orders, Sales and Profit Steady business mostly in domestic maintenance services, nuclear fuel cycle and components export Major Actions and Achievements Steady business promotion and construction of business foundation towards global deployment Overseas business ○Dominion selected US-APWR, a 1,700MWe class large-sized PWR, the third unit following the 2 units selected by Luminant. ○The basic design of ATMEA1, a 1,100 MWe class mid-sized PWR, completed. -
Status of Astrid Architecture in Starting of Basic Design Phase P
Status of astrid architecture in starting of basic design phase P. Amphoux, P. Gama, L. Raquin, B. Levoir To cite this version: P. Amphoux, P. Gama, L. Raquin, B. Levoir. Status of astrid architecture in starting of basic design phase. ICAPP 2017, Apr 2017, Fukui And Kyoto, Japan. cea-02435092 HAL Id: cea-02435092 https://hal-cea.archives-ouvertes.fr/cea-02435092 Submitted on 10 Jan 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Proceedings of ICAPP 2017 April 24-28, 2017 - Fukui and Kyoto (Japan) Status of ASTRID architecture in starting of Basic Design phase Philippe AMPHOUX 1, Philippe GAMA 2, Loïc RAQUIN 3, Benoît LEVOIR 3 1: CEA Cadarache, DEN/DER/CPA, 13108 Saint-Paul lez Durance Cedex, France 2: AREVA NP, 10 rue Juliette Récamier 69456 Lyon Cedex 06, France 3 : NOX, 45/47 Bd Paul Vaillant-Couturier 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine, France Contact author: Philippe AMPHOUX, +3344225711, [email protected] Abstract - Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors (SFR) is one of the Generation IV reactor concepts selected to secure the I. INTODUCTION nuclear fuel resources and to manage radioactive waste. In the frame of the June 2006 French act on sustainable After 6 years of Conceptual Design phase (AVP), management of radioactive materials and wastes, French the Project is involved since January 2016 in Basic Government entrusted CEA (French Commission for Design.