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03.05.2012
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Fast-spectrum Advanced Systems for power production and resource managemenT
March 23, 2012: We are very glad and proud to announce that Kaichao Sun, PhD student at the FAST reactors group, has just received the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad. He is one of approximately 500 students to receive the award all over the world. The topic of his PhD study is "Optimisation of Safety Parameters for Generation IV Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) Equilibrium Cores". Congratulations!
FAST at PHYSOR'08. Interlaken, September 2008. Left to right: Aurelia Chenu, Kaichao Sun, David Blanchet, Gaetan Girardin, Petr Petkevich, Aaron Epiney, Sandro Pelloni, Konstantin Mikityuk, Jiri Krepel.
The FAST (Fast-spectrum Advanced Systems for Power Production and Resource ManagemenT) project is an activity performed in the Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour of Paul Scherrer Institut in the area of fast-spectrum reactor behaviour with an emphasis on the comparative analysis of the Generation IV systems. We are building a centre of competence in carefully chosen research areas to conduct studies within international frameworks aimed at safety enhancement of the fast-spectrum systems considered for construction in Europe. In more specific terms, the goal of the project is to develop and maintain ability to provide a unique expert analysis in the three main areas, namely neutronics, thermal hydraulics and fuel behaviour, with the use of the three main measures, namely: use of a unique computational tool, integration into international programs and organization of an efficient team, for the three Gen-IV fast-spectrum reactor systems, namely sodium-, gas- and lead-cooled reactors.
The FAST project concept
One of the main objectives of the project is to build and maintain a code system for neutronic, thermal-hydraulic and mechanic analysis of the static and dynamic behaviour of the fast-spectrum cores and the whole reactor systems for different coolants, fuel types and forms, cooling system designs, etc. A code system of this complexity is particularly important in the context of transmutation and safety related studies aimed at establishing and comparing the basic parameters of the Generation IV fast reactors. This code system allows to analyse in a systematic manner
- multi-batch equilibrium cycle;
- fuel base-irradiation behaviour;
- a wide variety of transients.
The FAST code system structure
More details about the FAST code system at ScienceDirect: "FAST: An advanced code system for fast reactor transient analysis", Annals of Nuclear Energy, 32, 15, 1613-1631, 2005 by K. Mikityuk, S. Pelloni, P. Coddington, E. Bubelis and R. Chawla.
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