Current State of the Design Engineering of the Versatile Test Reactor Plant

Steven Unikewicz; Eric Loewen; George Malone

doi:10.1080/00295639.2022.2027738

Current State of the Design Engineering of the Versatile Test Reactor Plant

Steven Unikewicz
, Eric Loewen
, George Malone

Versatile Test Reactor

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Abstract

With the Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act of 2018, launched in March 2019, the Congress of the United States authorized funding to design and build a Versatile Test Reactor (VTR). This paper describes the current state of the design, a snapshot, of the key systems that the VTR will rely upon to achieve its mission of irradiating a wide variety of fuels, materials, instruments, and sensors with fast neutrons at a high neutron flux.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	11-22
Number of pages	12
Journal	Nuclear Science and Engineering
Volume	196
Issue number	sup1
Early online date	May 10 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2027738
State	Published - May 10 2022

Keywords

advanced reactor
fuel qualification
sodium fast reactor
Versatile Test Reactor
VTR

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