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Global Nuclear Energy Partnership [GNEP]

Global Nuclear Energy Partnership [GNEP]. Brief history of nuclear power GEN IV reactors Nuclear fuel cycles GNEP concept Activities at UIUC. 1932—Chadwick discovers neutron in England. 1938—Hahn and Strassman discover fission in Germany.

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Global Nuclear Energy Partnership [GNEP]

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  1. Global Nuclear Energy Partnership [GNEP] • Brief history of nuclear power • GEN IV reactors • Nuclear fuel cycles • GNEP concept • Activities at UIUC

  2. 1932—Chadwick discovers neutron in England. 1938—Hahn and Strassman discover fission in Germany. 1942—Fermi and colleagues construct 1st critical assembly in Chicago (CP-1). 1946—Creation of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) after WWII. 1951—Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-1) in Idaho generates first electricity from nuclear energy. 1957—First commercial light water nuclear reactor reaches full power in Shippingport, PA. 1960s—Rapid growth of the nuclear power industry in U.S. 1977—Creation of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 1979—TMI accident. 1992—NRC licensing process streamlined. 2000—Generation IV (GEN IV) concepts formalized. 2002—Nuclear Power 2010 Program announced by DOE to stimulate nuclear industry in US; Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative established by DOE. 2006—Global Nuclear Energy Partnership announced in U.S. 2007—First applications received by NRC for new nuclear plant construction. History of Nuclear Power

  3. Nuclear Power 2010 Program • Joint government/industry cost-shared effort. • Identify sites for new nuclear power plants. • Develop and bring to market advanced • nuclear plant technologies. • Evaluate the business case for building • new nuclear power plants. • Demonstrate untested regulatory and licensing • processes. GEN III GEN III+ From the NRC

  4. FBR GE Westinghouse Westinghouse Framatome Russian GEN IV Roadmap From DOE via Wikipedia

  5. GEN IV Reactor Concepts From DOE via Wikipedia FAST THERMAL

  6. Nuclear Fuel Cycle UOX MOX LEU UF6 U3O8 The Future of Nuclear Power, MIT

  7. U ore Open: Once-through cycle Major actinides: U, Pu Minor actinides: Np, Am, Cm, Bk, Cf The Future of Nuclear Power, MIT

  8. Closed: One recycle of Pu w/thermal only Proliferation Concerns The Future of Nuclear Power, MIT

  9. Closed: Recycling with thermal and fast reactors The Future of Nuclear Power, MIT

  10. Closed: recycle with breeder reactor Duderstadt and Hamilton

  11. Compare Effect of closing the fuel cycle NEA News 2002, no. 20.2

  12. Integrated Approach Global Partners US Industry DOE 2010 Program GNEP NERI AFCI NHI GEN IV

  13. GP NE Non-proliferation Advanced Burner Reactor The GNEP Concept GNEP Technical Development Plan, 2007

  14. Original: China, France, Japan, Russia, United States. New: Australia, Bulgaria, Ghana, Hungary, Jordan, ROK Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine Global Partnership P. Lisowski, 2007

  15. Closing the fuel cycle with fast reactors P. Lisowski, 2007

  16. Effect of closing the fuel cycle—resource conservation DOE Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee, 2002

  17. Effect of closing the fuel cycle NEA News 2002, no. 20.2

  18. DOE Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee, 2002 Sasahara et al., 2004 Effect of closing the fuel cycle—actinide burning Cm-245 long-lived

  19. Reduction in repository holding times P. Lisowski, 2007

  20. Activities at UIUC • DOE-funded study of UO2 thin-film matrix w/actinide surrogates. • DOE-funded study of CeO2, UO2, and CeUO2 fuel types. • DOE-funded materials testing for very high temperature gas-cooled reactors. • DOE-funded fast converter reactor analysis laboratory. • DOE-funded project to determine worldwide spent fuel estimates. • DOE-funded project to couple CINDER (burn-up) to CHAD (fluid dynamics).

  21. Radioisotope contribution to spent fuel radiotoxicity The Future of Nuclear Power, MIT

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