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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...
Molten salt reactors are being explored as an option for the future of nuclear energy and were selected as one of the advanced designs by the Generation IV International Forum. While research is being done i...
In order to be able to have a solid understanding of the species, phases and chemical interactions present in the materials of a molten salt reactor, the gap between the neutronic, isotope-based fuel...
The analysis of innovative reactor concepts such as the Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR) requires the development of new modeling and simulation tools. In the case of the MSFR, the strong intrinsic coupling b...
Presentation in Cooperative Severe Accident Research Program (CSARP) video meeting. 7-11 June, 2021.
Contains data plotted in the figures of the manuscript with the same title (submitted, 2021).
The release of fission products and fuel materials from a molten salt fast reactor fuel in hypothetical accident conditions was investigated. The molten salt fast reactor in this investigation features a fas...
Conference proceedings: 10th Europen Review Meeting on Severe Accident Research, ERMSAR 2022
Nuclear reactor modeling has been shifting, over the last decades, towards full-core multiphysics analysis due to the ever-increasing safety requirements and complexity of the designs of innovative systems. ...
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 ...
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...
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...
This repository features a fortran program (Stevan_fvm.f90) solving the 1D Stefan problem with the linearised enthalpy approach and a finite volume framework, published under the GNU general public lice...
Nukleonika, Vol 60 (4) 907-914
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...
This repository features a fortran program (Stevan_DG.f90) for solving the 1D Stefan problem with the linearised enthalpy approach and a discontinuous Galerkin framework, published under the GNU general publ...
This is the numerical data set belonging to the journal paper entitled: 'Numerical Modelling of Solid-Liquid Phase Change with a Conservative Linearised Enthalpy Approach and the Discontinuous...
Dataset associated to the NURETH-19 conference paper "Modelling and Simulation of the Gaseous Fission Product Removal in the Molten Salt Fast Reactor".
Dataset associated to the NURETH-19 conference paper "Modelling and Simulation of the Gaseous Fission Product Removal in the Molten Salt Fast Reactor".
Dataset associated to the journal paper "An Eulerian Single-Phase Transport Model for Solid Fission Products in the Molten Salt Fast Reactor: Development of an Analytical Solution for Verification Purpo...
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...
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 ...
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...
Dataset associated to the Annals of Nuclear Energy paper "Multiphysics Modelling of Gaseous Fission Products in the Molten Salt Fast Reactor".
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...
Presentation, done during the FISA 2022 / EUREDWASTE 22 conference in the embedded SNETP forum meeting, related to the selected waste issues of Molten Salt Reactors mainly from neutronics perspective. &...
Dataset associated to the conference paper "Multiphysics analysis of an in-core fission product removal system for the Molten Salt Fast Reactor".
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...