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Workplan

Work package WP1: Co-ordination
This work package covers the co-ordination of the project

Work package WP2: HFR irradiation, including fuel fabrication and characterisation

This work package consists of the following tasks:
Task 2.1 Design of four target capsules and licensing (NRG, IAM, ITU)
Task 2.2 Design and fabrication of irradiation sample holder (NRG, IAM)
Task 2.3 HFR Fuel pin fabrication, characterisation and transportation (NRG, IAM, ITU)
Task 2.4 Irradiation and reporting (NRG, IAM)
Task 2.5 Transportation, Post Irradiation Examinations and waste disposal (NRG, IAM, ITU)
Task 2.6 Detailed Reactor physics calculations (NRG)
Task 2.7 Thermo-mechanical calculations of (Th/Pu)oxide fuel (CEA)

Work package WP3 KWO: Irradiation, including fuel fabrication and characterisation

This work package consists of the following tasks:
Task 3.1 Design and licensing (KWO)
Task 3.2 KWO Fuel pin fabrication, characterisation and transportation (by ITU)
Task 3.3 Irradiation and reporting (KWO)

Work package WP4: Full core PWR behaviour with Th-based MOX fuels (FZJ, BNFL, NRG)

This work package consists of the following four tasks:
Task 4.1 Reference core and fuel bundle definition
Task 4.2 Static burn-up analysis on the reference fuel bundle
Task 4.3 Assessment of the reference core
Task 4.4 Full core level assessment of Th/Pu-MOX loaded PWR concepts

 
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Update 31 May 2002