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• Multiphysics analysis of the MSFR helium bubbling system: A comparison between neutron diffusion, SP3 neutron transport and Monte Carlo approaches

  Eric Cervi, Stefano Lorenzi, Lelio Luzzi, Antonia Cammi

  The Molten Salt Fast Reactor is a fast-spectrum molten salt reactor under development in the framework of the European H2020 SAMOFAR Project (http://samofar.eu/). Among the design peculiarities, this...

• Development of a multiphysics model for the study of fuel compressibility effects in the Molten Salt Fast Reactor

  Cervi, E., Lorenzi, S., Cammi, A., Luzzi, L.

  Compressible fluid dynamics is of great practical interest in many industrial applications, ranging from chemistry to aeronautical industry, and to nuclear field as well. At the same time, modelling ...

• Synthesis of UF4 and ThF4 by HF gas fluorination and re-determination of the UF4 melting point

  Souček, Pavel, Ondřej Beneš, Benoit Claux, Elisa Capelli, Michel Ougier, Václav Tyrpekl, Jean-Francois Vigier, Rudy J.M. Konings

  Basic thermodynamic and electrochemical data of pure actinide fluorides and their mixtures are required for the design and safety assessment of any presently studied molten salt reactor concept based...

• Pyrochemical reprocessing of Molten Salt Fast Reactor fuel: focus on the reductive extraction step

  Rodrigues, Davide, Durán-Klie, Gabriela, Delpech, Sylvie

  Nukleonika, Vol 60 (4) 907-914

• Evaporation of materials from the molten salt reactor fuel under elevated temperatures - Dataset

  Kalilainen, Jarmo, Nichenko, Sergii, Krepel, JIri

  The release of fission product and salt compounds from a molten salt reactor fuel under accident conditions was investigated with coupled computer simulations. The thermodynamic modeling of the salt and fiss...

• Synthesis of plutonium trifluoride by hydro-fluorination and novel thermodynamic data for the PuF2-LiF system

  Tosolin, A., P. Soucek, O. Beneš, J.-F. Vigier, L. Luzzi, R.J.M. Konings

  PuF3 was synthetized by hydro-fluorination of PuO2 and subsequent reduction of the product by hydrogenation. The obtained PuF3 was analysed by X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and found phase-pure. High ...

• Development of an SP3 neutron transport solver for the analysis of the Molten Salt Reactor

  Cervi, E., Lorenzi, S., Cammi, A., Luzzi, L.

  The aim of this paper is the extension of a multiphysics OpenFOAM solver for the analysis of the Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR), developed in previous works (Cervi et al., 2017, 2018). In particular...

• High temperature thermal hydraulics modeling of a molten salt: application to a Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR)

  Rubiolo, Pablo R., Mauricio Tano Retamales, Véronique Ghetta, Julien Giraud

  An overview of the ongoing efforts in the area of the thermal hydraulics modeling of a Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR) is presented. The MSFR employs a owing liquid fuel based on a high tempe...

• A methodology for the identification of the postulated initiating events of the Molten Salt Fast Reactor

  Gérardin, Delphine, Anna Chiara Uggenti,, Stéphane Beils, Andrea Carpignano, Sandra Dulla, Elsa Merle, Daniel Heuer, Axel Laureau, Michel Allibert

  The Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR) with its liquid circulating fuel and its fast neutron spectrum calls for a new safety approach including technological neutral methodologies and analysis tools ada...

• Vaporization behaviour of the Molten Salt Fast Reactor fuel: The LiF-ThF4-UF4 system

  Tosolin, A., O. Beneš, J.-Y. Colle, P. Soucek, L. Luzzi, R.J.M. Konings

  A selected composition of the initial fuel of the Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR) is assessed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) for melting point determination and by Knudsen effusion mass s...