The BR2 Reactor: Short History, Characteristics and Utilization
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The BR2 Reactor: Short History, Characteristics and Utilization. / Van Dyck, Steven.
Encyclopedia of Nuclear Energy: Reference Work 2021. ed. / Ehud Greenspan. Vol. 4 Section 11 - Research Reactors. ed. Elsevier, 2021. p. 96-104 (Unknown).Research output: Contribution to report/book/conference proceedings › Chapter › peer-review
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T1 - The BR2 Reactor: Short History, Characteristics and Utilization
AU - Van Dyck, Steven
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PY - 2021/7/7
Y1 - 2021/7/7
N2 - The BR2 reactor at the Belgian nuclear research Center, SCK•CEN (SCK•CEN is the acronym of the Dutch-French name “studiecentrum voor kernenergie—centre d’étude de l’énérgie nucléaire”) is one of the highest performing material test reactors available today. This article reviews the historic background of its construction and summarizes the operating characteristics and the utilization of the installation. Initially conceived to be a high performance and flexible test reactor, the reactor and the associated infrastructure and laboratories have fulfilled their mission, which varied significantly over time. Still active on the scene of nuclear fuel and material testing, the BR2 has also become today one of the major global suppliers of irradiation services for the production of radio-isotopes and neutron transmutation doped silicon. With a long term view, SCK•CEN supports the availability and safe operation of this infrastructure with a continuous investment and ageing management program, thus providing a long term availability of a large irradiation facility on site, with a current BR2 operating horizon up to 2036.
AB - The BR2 reactor at the Belgian nuclear research Center, SCK•CEN (SCK•CEN is the acronym of the Dutch-French name “studiecentrum voor kernenergie—centre d’étude de l’énérgie nucléaire”) is one of the highest performing material test reactors available today. This article reviews the historic background of its construction and summarizes the operating characteristics and the utilization of the installation. Initially conceived to be a high performance and flexible test reactor, the reactor and the associated infrastructure and laboratories have fulfilled their mission, which varied significantly over time. Still active on the scene of nuclear fuel and material testing, the BR2 has also become today one of the major global suppliers of irradiation services for the production of radio-isotopes and neutron transmutation doped silicon. With a long term view, SCK•CEN supports the availability and safe operation of this infrastructure with a continuous investment and ageing management program, thus providing a long term availability of a large irradiation facility on site, with a current BR2 operating horizon up to 2036.
KW - BR2 reactor
KW - Light water reactor fuel
KW - Neutron irradiation
KW - Structural material
KW - Test reactor fuel
KW - Transient testing
UR - https://ecm.sckcen.be/OTCS/llisapi.dll/open/45836387
U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-12-819725-7.00078-7
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-12-819725-7.00078-7
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780128197325
VL - 4
T3 - Unknown
SP - 96
EP - 104
BT - Encyclopedia of Nuclear Energy
A2 - Greenspan, Ehud
PB - Elsevier
ER -
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