Nuclear Systems Design

Our mission

The Nuclear Systems Design expert group (NSD) conceives irradiation devices to meet customers' requirements regarding:

• Fluence
• Temperature
• Chemistry

We control or perform the design, manufacturing, assembly and testing of the installations developed for large research reactors, particularly BR2.

The Nuclear Systems Design expert group has two main fields of irradiation devices:

Devices for scientific and technological programmes

• Fuels and materials for different fission reactor types, ADS and fusion reactors
  Fuel for Lead Reactor - Heat up phase (6 MB) - View online
• Fuels for MTR's
• Safety tests
• Diagnostics and remote handling sensors
• In-pile instrumentation (mainly for use in irradiation devices)

Pool side facility for silicon doping - Temperature field in moderator

Devices for commercial productions

• Radioisotopes for medical and industrial purposes
• Neutron transmutation doping of silicon (electronic industry)

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• Experimental rigs for MTR's (BR2, JHR, MYRRHA)
• CALLISTO: a PWR experimental facility for scientific in-pile studies
• MISTRAL
• PWC/CCD: Pressurised Water Capsule/Cycling and Calibration Device
• ROBIN: ROtating Basket with Instrumented Needles
• SMIRNOF - A versatile in-pile reactor irradiation facility for radiation assessment of optical fibres in fission-reactor environment
• POSEIDON - Silicon Doping
• EVITA: Enhanced Velocity Irradiation Test Apparatus
• SPEED-ASTIR: material irradiation in Lead Bismuth Eutectic (LBE)
• PRF: a reloadable facility for the production of radioisotopes
• IrrDemo: irradiation of GFR fuel prototypes elements
• Nuclear in-pile instrumentation

Publications

Dehouwer K.- Onderhoud en optimalisering van de webapplicatie van het Rekenbureau.- Geel, Belgium: KHK, 2010.- 71 p.- Bachelor thesis
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De Bruyn D., Larmignat S., Woaye-Hune A., Mansani L., Rimpault G., Artioli C.- Accelerator Driven Systems for Transmutation: Main Design Achievements of the XT-ADS and EFIT Systems within the FP6 IP-EUROTRANS Integrated Project.- In: International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants ICAPP'10, San Diego, Ca, United States, 13-17 June 2010, La Grange Park, Il, United States, American Nuclear Society, 2010, p. 1808-1816
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De Bruyn D., Baeten P., Larmignat S., Woaye-Hune A., Mansani L.- The FP7 Central Design Team Project: towards a fast-spectrum Transmutation experimental Facility.- In: 2010 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants ICAPP'10, San Diego, Ca, United States, 13-17 June 2010, La Grange Park, Il, United States, American Nuclear Society, 2010, p. 470-476
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Aït Abderrahim H., Baeten P., De Bruyn D., Heyse J., Schuurmans P., Wagemans J.- MYRRHA, a Multipurpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-end Applications.- In: Nuclear Physics News, 20:1(2010), p. 24-28.- ISSN 1050-6896
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Heyse J., Caers B., Dierckx M., Fernandez R., Janssens J., Schuurmans P., e.a.- Development of an in-pile HLM materials test loop for BR2.- In: HeLiMeRT 2009 - Fifth edition of the International Workshop on Materials for Heavy Liquid Metal cooled Reactors and Related Technologies - Proceedings, Mol, Belgium, 20-22 April 2009 / SCK•CEN, Mol, Belgium, SCK•CEN, 2010, p. 63-67
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