PowerPoint Lecture Notes: Next Generation Nuclear Power

Papers cited in lecture notes or used in their preparation:

Gen II

Currently Operating RBMK Reactors:

World Nuclear Association - RBMK Reactors (link / cached copy)

Hazards of zirconium fuel rod catalyzed reactor hydrogen explosions

Arjun Makhijani - IEER testimony to California PUC (link / cached copy)

U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Currently Planned and Under Construction:

World Nuclear Association - Nuclear Power in the USA (link / cached copy)

Pressurized Water Reactor Shutdown Procedures:

A Primer on How a Pressurized Reactor Shuts Down (link / cached copy)

Pressurized Water Systems - NRC Technical Training Center Manual (link / cached copy)

The Westinghouse Pressurized Water Reactor Nuclear Power Plant Manual (cached copy)

Gen III / III+

Westinghouse AP1000 Pressurized Water Reactor

AP1000 Overview - Westinghouse talk on International Atomic Energy Assoc. website
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AP1000 at a Glance, Westinghouse on UKAP website (link / cached copy)

General Electric / Hitachi Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ES-BWR):

GE / Hitachi ESBWR Fact Sheet (link / cached copy)

GE ESBWR Fact Sheet (link, cached copy)

Safety, constructability and operational performance of the ABWR and ESBWR designs - GE presentation on International Atomic Energy Assoc. website (link / cached copy)

Next Generation Nuclear: The ESBWR - Nuclear News, pp. 36-40, January 2006 (cached copy)

Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor - NSTD Course, ORNL (cached copy)

Gen IV

Molten Salt Reactor Experiment:

The Molten Salt Reactor Adventure, H.G. MacPherson, Nuclear Science & Engineering 90, pp. 374-80 (1985) (link / cached copy)

Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor:

Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors - An Old Nuclear Power Idea Gets Reexamined, R. Hargraves & R. Moir, American Scientist 98, p. 304 (2010) (link / cached copy)

Liquid Fuel Nuclear Reactors, R. Hargraves & R. Moir, Forum on Physics & Society, American Physical Society (2016) (link / cached copy)

Trying to Unleash the Power of Thorium, M. Jacoby, Chemical and Engineering News 93 (27), pp. 44-46 (2015) (link / cached copy)

Thorium Fuel Cycle - Potential Benefits and Challenges, International Atomic Energy Agency 2005 (link / cached copy)

Revisiting the Thorium-Uranium Nuclear Fuel Cycle, S. David, E. Huffer & H. Nifenecker, EuroPhysicsNews 38 (2) (link / cached copy)

Thorium Fuel for Nuclear Energy: An unconventional tactic might one day ease concerns that spent fuel could be used to make a bomb, M.S. Kazimi, American Scientist 91(5), p. 1 (2003) (link / cached copy)

Gas Cooled Reactors

Small Modular Reactors: No Solution for the Cost, Safety and Waste Problems - IEER
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High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors, in Nuclear Energy Materials and Reactors, Vol. II
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Simulations of a Gas Cooled Fluidized Bed Nuclear Reactor - Part II: Stability of a Fluidized Bed Reactor with Mixed Oxide Fuels, B.E. miles et al., Annals of Nuclear Energy 37, p. 1014, 2010
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Stability Margin Analysis of Gas Cooled Reactor Design Models, A.I. Oludare et al., Mathematical Theory and Modeling 3(8), p. 133, 2013 (link / cached copy)

Pebble Bed Reactors

Pebble Bed Reactor Core Neutronics - Design and Fuel Cycle, F. Reitsma, International Atomic Energy Agency Course on High temperature Gas Cooled Reactor Technology (2012) (link / cached copy)

Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR): Safety Issues, E. Lyman, Forum on Physics & Society, American Physical Society, October 2001 (link / cached copy)

Traveling Wave Reactor

Traveling Wave Reactor, Prof. M. Ragheb, U. Illinois (link / cached copy)

Traveling Wave Reactors: Sodium Cooled Gold at the End of the Nuclear Rainbow - IEER
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Small Modular Reactors

Advances in Small Modular Reactor Developments, International Atomic Energy Assoc.
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US Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Development Fades Further into an Uncertain Future, Christopher Paine, NRDC (link / cached copy)

Small Modular Reactors: No Solution for the Cost, Safety and Waste Problems - IEER
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