Studsvik Cladding Integrity Program V

Objective

Ensuring the safety and efficiency of nuclear fuel utilization.

Main Tasks

1. Addressing safety issues related to the storage of nuclear fuel in temporary repositories.
2. Studying the behavior of nuclear fuel in severe nuclear accident scenarios with loss of coolant (LOCA).
3. Researching properties and justifying the development of accident-tolerant fuel (ATF).
4. Modeling nuclear fuel behavior to support experiment planning and result interpretation.

Expected Results

1. Improved safety of nuclear fuel storage in temporary repositories.
2. Deeper knowledge of nuclear fuel behavior patterns in severe nuclear accident scenarios with loss of coolant (LOCA).
3. Justification for the development of advanced accident-tolerant nuclear fuel (ATF).
4. Enhanced modeling of nuclear fuel processes to support experiment planning and interpretation.

Partners

• Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM);
• OKG Aktiebolag Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel AB (VNF);
• Studsvik Nuclear AB;
• Nuclear Research Institute of the Czech Republic (ÚJV Řež);
• Office for Nuclear Regulation (ORN); National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL);
• Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique (CEA);
• Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) mbH Framatome;
• Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI);
• National University "Odesa Polytechnic";
• Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry of Japan (CRIEPI), Mitsubishi Nuclear Fuel Co Ltd (MNF), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), and Nuclear Development Corporation (NDC);
• Nuclear Fuel Industries (NFI);
• Nippon Nuclear Fuel Development (NFD);
• Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA);
• Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP); Korea Nuclear Fuel (KNF);
• Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI); VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté (IRSN);
• Electricité de France (EDF); EdF Energy Sellafield Ltd;
• Korean Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS);
• Spanish Nuclear Safety Council, representing the Spanish industry and research organizations (CSN);
• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC);
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL);
• Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI);
• Global Nuclear Fuels (GNF);
• Nippon Nuclear Fuel Development CO., Ltd. (NFD);
• Westinghouse Electric Sweden (WSE);
• Center for Energy Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA-EK);
• China Nuclear Safety Center (NSC);
• China Nuclear Power Research Institute (CNPRI);
• Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute (SNERDI);
• Institute of Nuclear Energy of China (NPIC).

Project Coordinator from OP

Serhiy Mykolayovych Pelykh, Professor of the Department of Computerized Systems and Software Technologies, pelykh@op.edu.ua.

Project Language

English.