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[en] The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) supports Member State activities in the area of advanced fast reactor technology development by providing a forum for information exchange and collaborative research programmes. The Agency's activities in this field are mainly carried out within the framework of the Technical Working Group on Fast Reactors (TWG-FR), which assists in the implementation of corresponding IAEA activities and ensures that all technical activities are in line with the expressed needs of Member States. Among its broad range of activities, the IAEA proposes and establishes coordinated research projects (CRPs) aimed at the improvement of Member State capabilities in the area of fast reactor design and analysis. An important opportunity to undertake collaborative research was provided by the experimental campaign of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in the prototype sodium fast reactor PHENIX before it was shut down in 2009. The overall purpose of the end of life tests was to gather additional experience on the operation of sodium cooled reactors. As the CEA opened the experiments to international cooperation, in 2007 the IAEA launched a CRP on ''Control Rod Withdrawal and Sodium Natural Circulation Tests Performed during the PHENIX End-of-Life Experiments''. The CRP, with the participation of institutes from eight countries, contributed to improving capabilities in sodium cooled reactor simulation through code verification and validation, with particular emphasis on temperature and power distribution calculations and the analysis of sodium natural circulation phenomena. The objective of this report is to document the results and main achievements of the benchmark analyses on the natural circulation test performed in the framework of the PHENIX end of life experimental campaign
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Jul 2013; 186 p; ISBN 978-92-0-139610-5;
; ISSN 1011-4289;
; Also available on-line: http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/TE_1703_web.pdf; Enquiries should be addressed to IAEA, Marketing and Sales Unit, Publishing Section, E-mail: sales.publications@iaea.org; Web site: http://www.iaea.org/books; 111 figs., 22 tabs. 16 refs.


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BENCHMARKS, CEA, COMMERCIALIZATION, COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION, CONTROL ELEMENTS, COORDINATED RESEARCH PROGRAMS, DESIGN, EXPERIMENTAL DATA, IAEA, INFORMATION DISSEMINATION, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, NATURAL CONVECTION, PHENIX REACTOR, POWER DISTRIBUTION, REACTOR OPERATION, REACTOR SHUTDOWN, ROD EJECTION ACCIDENTS, TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION, VERIFICATION
ACCIDENTS, BREEDER REACTORS, CONVECTION, COOPERATION, DATA, ENERGY TRANSFER, ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS, EPITHERMAL REACTORS, FAST REACTORS, FBR TYPE REACTORS, FRENCH ORGANIZATIONS, HEAT TRANSFER, INFORMATION, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS, LMFBR TYPE REACTORS, MASS TRANSFER, NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, NUMERICAL DATA, OPERATION, PLUTONIUM REACTORS, POWER REACTORS, REACTOR ACCIDENTS, REACTOR COMPONENTS, REACTORS, RESEARCH PROGRAMS, SHUTDOWN, SIMULATION, SODIUM COOLED REACTORS
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