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Low Enriched Uranium Fuels fOR REsEarch Reactors

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Project "LEU-FOREvER" data sheet

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Coordinator
COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES 

Organization address
address: RUE LEBLANC 25
city: PARIS 15
postcode: 75015
website: www.cea.fr

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 Coordinator Country France [FR]
 Project website https://www.heracles-consortium.eu/forever.php
 Total cost 6˙923˙147 €
 EC max contribution 6˙598˙148 € (95%)
 Programme 1. H2020-Euratom-1.8. (Ensure availability and use of research infrastructures of pan_european relevance)
 Code Call NFRP-2016-2017-1
 Funding Scheme RIA
 Starting year 2017
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2017-10-01   to  2021-09-30

 Partnership

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# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES FR (PARIS 15) coordinator 857˙375.00
2    FRAMATOME FR (COURBEVOIE) participant 2˙125˙590.00
3    STUDIECENTRUM VOOR KERNENERGIE / CENTRE D'ETUDE DE L'ENERGIE NUCLEAIRE BE (BRUXELLES) participant 1˙244˙592.00
4    CENTRUM VYZKUMU REZ SRO CZ (HUSINEC-REZ) participant 749˙916.00
5    SOCIETE TECHNIQUE POUR L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE TECHNICATOME SA FR (VILLIERS LE BACLE) participant 658˙380.00
6    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN DE (MUENCHEN) participant 473˙210.00
7    NARODOWE CENTRUM BADAN JADROWYCH PL (OTWOCK) participant 194˙365.00
8    LGI CONSULTING FR (PARIS) participant 161˙952.00
9    INSTITUT MAX VON LAUE - PAUL LANGEVIN FR (GRENOBLE) participant 128˙725.00
10    AREVA NP SAS FR (COURBEVOIE) participant 4˙042.00

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 Project objective

Securing the nuclear fuel supply for European research reactors is the overall objective of the LEU-FOREvER project. Our analysis points out two main risks of shortage: (i) the very challenging conversion of High Performance Research Reactors (HPRRs) from High to Low Enriched Uranium fuels (LEU), (ii) the ROSATOM monopoly to fuel medium power research reactors (MPRRs) with original Soviet design. On HPRRs, a multi-disciplinary consortium composed of fuel/core designers, operators and fuel manufacturer has been built to tackle both issues. Five European organisations (AREVA NP, CEA, ILL, SCK•CEN, TUM), which compose the HERACLES group, have been strongly involved for almost 20 years now in the development of LEU fuels. To enter the qualification phase in 2021, HERACLES is pushing towards the completion of an understanding phase. The baseline lies on the development of UMo fuels and their variants. Within LEU-FOREvER, optimisation of both manufacturing process (up to the design of pilot equipment) and modelling of the in-pile behaviour of these fuels are proposed. As a result of an independent review undergone in 2015, an alternative to UMo fuels has to be considered: this will be high-loaded U3Si2. Within LEU-FOREvER, it will be optimised to prepare an ambitious in-pile test (“High PROSIT”). For European MPRRs, the ultimate goal is to design a new core which could work with both the original ROSATOM and European elements that would be developed, licensed and qualified (“4EVERTEST”) within LEU-FOREvER. The Czech LVR-15 reactor (CV Rez) has been selected as a case study, and preliminary design by AREVA-TA is based on U3Si2/Al flat fuel plates. To improve economic competitiveness, AREVA NP will reinvestigate its manufacturing process and propose optimisations. Strong synergies are expected between both activities. The modernization of research reactors appears as a key element in the mitigation of the risks surrounding the supply of isotopes, as expressed in the NFRP-11 topic.

 Deliverables

List of deliverables.
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Take a look to the deliverables list in detail:  detailed list of LEU-FOREvER deliverables.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2019 Koubbi, J.; Boyard, M.; Huet, F.; Romanello, V.; Dambrosio, A.; Hrehor, M.
LEU-FOREvER PROJECT: PRELIMINARY NEUTRONIC CALCULATIONS STATUS
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2020-02-12
2019 Boyard, M.; Huet, F.; Paturet, C.; Romanello, V.; Dambrosio, A.; Hreror, M.; Vidovszky, I.; Ferenc, G.; Gajewski, J.; Migdal, M.
FUEL ASSEMBLY DESIGN FOR AN IRRADIATION IN AN EUROPEAN MEDIUM POWER RESEARCH REACTOR
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2020-02-12
2019 Stepnik, B.; Allenou, J.; Rontard, C.; Schwarz, C.; Steyer, C.; Baumeister, B.; Petry, W.; Van den berghe, S. ; Leenaers, A.; Valance, S.; Palancher, H.; Hervieu, E.; Calzavara, Y.; Guyon, H.
High density fuel plate developments in LEU FOREVER Project
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2020-02-12
2019 Duperray, R.; Roux, L.
FUEL ASSEMBLY THERMAL HYDRAULICS DESIGN FOR AN IRRADIATION IN AN EUROPEAN MEDIUM POWER RESEARCH REACTOR
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2018 S. VALANCE, H. BREITKREUTZ, Y. CALZAVARA, M. HREHOR, F. HUET, J. JAROSZEWICZ, H. PALANCHER, B. STEPNIK, S. VAN DEN BERGHE
THE H2020 EUROPEAN PROJECT LEU–FOREVER: LEU FUELS FOR MEDIUM AND HIGH POWER RESEARCH REACTORS IN EUROPE
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2020-02-12

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