Fast Reactor Experiments for hYbrid Applications (FREYA)
Research Project, 2011
– 2016
Building up on the former activities accomplished in the previous FPs, namely MUSE in FP5 and EUROTRANS in FP6, it is proposed in the FREYA project to extend the investigations of the subcritical figurations for validation of the methodology for on-line reactivity monitoring of ADS systems. The investigations will be related to the different subcriticality levels for the nominal operation mode of ADS. In order to investigate the robustness of several proposed measurement techniques with regard to the reflector effect, it is foreseen to perform experiments with different reflector materials. To complete the validation of the methodology for subcriticality monitoring, the robustness of the reactivity indicators with regard to a change in vertical position of the neutron source will be investigated in view of possible variations of the height of the spallation source in a real ADS. On the other hand given the objectives for MYRRHA/FASTEF as studied within FP7 CDT to be operated as a subcritical facility and a critical facility, an experimental programme in support of the design and licensing of both operation modes is needed. Although the experimental programme with regard to the critical mode operation of MYRRHA/FASTEF can generate useful information for the validation of reactor codes for LFR development, a dedicated effort for the validation of reactor codes for LFR developments is envisaged by the LFR community.
Participants
Imre Pazsit (contact)
Nuclear Engineering
Dina Chernikova
Nuclear Engineering
Syed F Naeem
Nuclear Engineering
Collaborations
AGH University of Science and Technology
Krakow, Poland
Ansaldo Nucleare
Genova, Italy
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Budapest, Hungary
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Paris, France
Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas (Ciemat)
Madrid, Spain
Delft University of Technology
Delft, Netherlands
Helmholtz
Berlin, Germany
Instituto Superior Tecnico
Lisboa, Portugal
Instituto Tecnologico e Nuclear
Sacavem, Portugal
Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA)
Roma, Italy
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Karlsruhe, Germany
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Roma, Italy
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Stockholm, Sweden
Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie (SCK-CEN)
Brussel, Belgium
Technical University of Madrid
Madrid, Spain
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Funding
European Commission (EC)
Project ID: EC/FP7/269665
Funding Chalmers participation during 2011–2016