LOMONACO , G.

In the framework of MYRRHA Project, a pool-type experimental and material testing irradiation facility operated with Lead Bismuth Eutectic (LBE) coolant and able to operate in both sub-critical and critical mode is designed to be built in Mol, Belgium, in SCK•CEN domain. In addition to the material testing function, targets of the MYRRHA...

From the late 1950s to date, nuclear thermal propulsion has the purpose of making possible missions impossible to accomplish with chemical propulsion. The use of hydrogen as a propellant and a fuel resistant to very high temperatures guarantees exceptional propulsive performance. Since the NERVA project, a propulsion system with such...

Zirconium based alloys are commonly used as material for fuel claddings in the light water reactors. Claddings act as first metallic barriers against loss of fission products during the nuclear power plant operation, intermittent storage or final dry storage. The integrity of claddings is always critical issue during reactor operation and...

In the context of GEN-IV heavy liquid metal-cooled reactors safety studies, the flow blockage in a fuel sub-assembly is considered one of the main issues to be addressed and one of the most important accidents for Lead Fast Reactors (LFR). In order to model the temperature and velocity field inside a wrapped fuel assembly under unblocked and...

Studies are in progress in order to revisit the status and the potentiality of the Reversed Field Pinch (RFP) as a fusion core in FFHR, taking into account: (i) the recent progress in RFP physics brought by the results of RFX-mod (R = 2, a = 0.46, Ip = 2MA), mainly about MHD modes control, (ii) ...