Superphenix : technical and scientific achievements /: technical and scientific achievements. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joël Guidez, Gérard Prêle.
• Authors: Guidez, Joël; Prêle, Gérard
• Contents: Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Book; Contents; About the Authors; Fabrication Recipes and Instruction Manual; Superphenix Main Data; 1 General Description; Abstract; Introduction; General Organization of a Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor; Superphenix Specific Case; The Fuel Sub-assembly; The Core; The Reactor Block; The Primary Circuit; The Secondary Loops and the Electricity Generation; The Auxiliary Circuits; The Handling; The Instrumentation and Control and Electrical Power Supply; The Buildings; Operating Mode; References; 2 Construction Review; Abstract; A European Reactor. General OrganizationConstruction Site Beginning Date; Industrial Organization; The Overall Progress of the Reactor Block Construction Site; The Fabrications in On-site Workshop for Large Diameter Structures; Other Manufacturing and Exceptional Transports; The Civil Engineering; Reactor Block; On-site Workshop; The Manufacturing in the On-site Workshop; The Notion of Package; Manufacturing and Storage Methods; The Package Transfer and Assembly in the Reactor Block; First Package: The Safety Vessel (260 t); Second Package: The Main Vessel + The Core Catcher + The B1 Baffle (700 t). Third Package: Conical and Toroidal Inner Vessels + Baffles + Chimneys + Pump Skirts (560 t)Fourth Package: The Reactor Slab; Main Vessel/Slab Welding; Welding Safety Vessel/Slab; Setting-up the Dead Body; Setting-up the Dome Cylindrical Body; Setting-up the Diagrid; Setting-up the Rotating Plugs; Setting-up the Dome (400 t); Setting-up the Storage Drum; Works Finalization; Works in the Plant "Conventional" Part; The Schedule; The Costs; The Construction Costs; Benchmarking with Water Reactors; The Other Construction Sites; Conclusion and Recommendations; References; 3 Start-up Trials. AbstractGeneral Organization of Start-up Trials; Phase 1: Subset Testing; Phase 2: Filling-in with Sodium; Phase 3: In-Sodium Isothermal Trials; Phase 4: Rise to Rated Power; Phase 1 Trials; Progress; Phase 1 Trial Results; Phase 2 Trials; Progress; Phase 2 Trial Results; Phase 3 Trials; Progress; Phase 3 Trial Results; Phase 4 Trials; Progress; Phase 4 Trial Results; Internal Structure Vibrations; Reminders; Vibrations Observed on the Reactor; Analysis; The Level in the Return Collector; The Vessel Cooling Rate; The Structure Flexibility; Solving the Problem. Application to the Reactor and Consequence AnalysisPartial Load Operations; Conclusion; Hydraulic and Thermal Hydraulic Trials; Hydraulic Trials; Thermal-Hydraulic Trials; Conclusion and Recommendations; Reference; 4 Objectives and Operation Results; Abstract; Introduction; Superphenix Reactor Initial Objective; The First Problems; Situation in December 1986; Operation/Shutdown Period Chronology; First Operating Phase Untill the Storage Drum Leak; Phase 2: 83-EFPD Outage for Modifications Following the Storage Drum Unavailability; Phase 3: Second Production Period Untill the 160-EFPD Outage.
• Publisher Details: France : Atlantis Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 621.48/34; Sodium graphite reactors; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Power Resources -- Nuclear; Sodium graphite reactors; Energy; Nuclear Energy; Energy Materials; Nuclear Fusion; Electronic books; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789462392465; 9462392463; 9462392455; 9789462392458
• Related ISBNs: 9789462392458
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 23, 2017).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.