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Innovative Nuclear Power Facilities in Reports at the 5th International Scientific and Technical Conference on Innovative Designs and Technologies for Nuclear Power (ISTC NIKIET-2018)
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Fourth International Scientific and Technical Conference on Innovative Projects and Technologies of Nuclear Power (MNTK NIKIET-2016)
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On calculation of the transport coefficients and thermodynamic properties of a helium-xenon gas mixture
Calculation and experimental investigations of the transport coefficients and thermodynamic properties of a helium-xenonmixture are reviewed. It seems that a combination of approaches of the Chapman-Enskog kin...
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On the choice of correlations for calculating the heat transfer coefficient in binary gas mixtures
Analytical review of numerous Russian and foreign sources of information on convective heat transfer to single-phase flows in circular pipes and rod bundles is represented. Formulas for calculation of heat tra...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Proliferation Resistance Features in Nuclear Reactor Designs For Small-Power Plants
Safeguarding of nuclear technologies, facilities and materials against unauthorised application and proliferation is very much on the agenda at present. The attention given to this issue is due not only to the...
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Nuclear central heating — prospects and solutions
Large-scale development of nuclear central heating — a radical expansion of a sphere of application, large increase of cost-effectiveness and self-financing of the construction of nuclear sources of energy, in...
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Research reactors — a look into the future
The place of research reactors in validating new energy technologies, which are being developed, and advances in science is analyzed. It is shown that research reactors are a verified effective and irreplaceab...
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Space nuclear power systems with turbomachine energy conversion
The expansion of space exploration requires the development of sufficiently powerful and reliable power facilities which can operate for a long time. Such facilities could be nuclear power systems and nuclear-...
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Contribution of the Research and Design Institute of Electrical Technology to the formulation of a strategy for the development of nuclear power in Russia
The results of investigations performed by specialists at Research and Design Institute of Electrical Technology together with other enterprises, institutes, and organizations concerning the formulation of a s...
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The use of supercritical parameters of a coolant—A promising path to development of nuclear power plant water-cooled reactors in the 21st century
A modern concept of the development of water-cooled reactors of nuclear power plants (NPPs) is considered. Data on the design of NPPs with supercritical-parameters coolant and the results of experimental studi...
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Validation of lifetime extension of power-generating units with RBMK reactors
A list of measures for extending the lifetime of power-generating units with RBMK reactors is presented. The normative approaches and criteria are indicated, an assessment of the technical possibility of lifet...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
PROLIFERATION RESISTANCE FEATURES IN NUCLEAR REACTOR DESIGNS
The paper presents a review of the main principles for technologies and materials protection from unauthorized proliferation and application to be considered in nuclear reactors designing. Nuclear power featur...
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Direct-Flow Channel Reactor with Supercritical Coolant Pressure
The concept of a direct-flow channel reactor with supercritical-pressure water (CR-SCP) is presented. Neutron-physics, thermohydraulic, and strength calculations are used to substantiate the fundamental core d...
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Conditions for maximum fuel burnup in a RBMK channel reactor without a moderator
The conditions for attaining an operating regime with maximum burnup of nuclear fuel are examined. This can be a regime with steady continuous reloadings with the reactor replenished with fuel whose heavy atom...
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Role of Nuclear Power in Large-Scale Power Production in Russia in the 21st Century
The results are summarized of investigations performed over the last 20 years which culminated in the current fundamental formulation of the problem of nuclear power based on fast reactors and the basic criter...
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Potential Biological Danger of Uranium Used in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
It is suggested that long-lived 226Ra and 230Th be extracted from ore together with uranium and then transmuted to achieve radiation equivalence. The presence or absence of extraction of radium and/or thorium tog...
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Effect of Burnup and Holding Time of Irradiated Nuclear Fuel on the Mass Ratio of Am, Cm, Np, and Fissioning Plutonium
Computed estimates of the mass ratio of Am, Cm, Np, and plutonium for different burnup of VVÉR and RBMK fuel and the post-reactor holding time are presented. The holding time for which this ratio reaches the a...
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Vessel and Channel Fast Reactors Cooled by Boiling Water or Water with Supercritical Parameters
The possibility is examined of develo** a vessel-type fast reactor cooled by water with supercritical parameters (BR-VSP) and a channel-type fast plutonium–water reactor cooled by boiling water, using the RB...
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The Potential for Develo** and the Possibility of Attaining Radiation Equivalence between Uranium and Wastes in Future Nuclear Power
The development of nuclear power with capacity up to 300 GW using thermal reactors and BREST fast reactors with small excess breeding (BR ∼ 1.05) and nuclear power operating potentially for up to 3750 yr using...
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Comprehensive Analysis of Mechanical and Thermohydraulic Processes in the Graphite Masonry of Channel Rectors during an Accidental Rupture of a Fuel Channel
A methodology and preliminary results of a computational analysis of the processes occurring in the graphite masonry in RBMK channel reactors during the rupture of a fuel channel as a result of accidental over...
