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EPR, the French Nuclear Fusion


If Italy is decided to build a nuclear reactor, the choice of technology should rest with the type EPR (European pressured Reactor), considered In 2008, ENEL has begun a collaboration with France's EDF.

Picking up wikipedia (full article here )

The main aims of the project are
- improving the safety of the facility;
- making it economically more competitive

The EPR can be used as fuel: oxide uranium enriched up to 4.9% in (~ 3.5% on average whereas the other partially burned cycles) or MOX (mixed oxides of uranium and plutonium) up to 100% of the kernel.

the EPR nuclear reactor project involves multiple systems of both active and passive protection against various types of accidents:

• four independent emergency cooling systems, each capable alone to cool the reactor core after its off;
• a metal containment around the reactor to seal the leakage of radioactive material in an accident with rupture of the primary circuit;
• a container (core catcher) and an area passive cooling of the molten material in the unlikely event that the molten core of radioactive nuclear fuel can be released from the pressure vessel (see containment building )
• double-walled outer reinforced concrete, with a thickness total of 2.6 m, designed to withstand the direct impact of a large airliner (and in this regard were raised doubts about the real effect it would have a similar impact)

If you unhappy in Italy decided to build a nuclear reactor, the choice of technology should rest with the type EPR (European pressured Reactor), whereas in 2008 ENEL has begun a collaboration with France's EDF.

Picking up wikipedia (full article here)

The main aims of the project are

- increase plant safety;

- making it economically more competitive

The EPR can be used as fuel: enriched uranium oxide up to 4.9% in (~ 3.5% on average whereas the other partially burned cycles) or MOX (mixed oxides of uranium and plutonium) up to 100% of the kernel.

the EPR nuclear reactor project involves multiple systems of both active and passive protection against various types of accidents:

four independent emergency cooling systems, each capable alone of cool the reactor core after shutdown;

a metal containment around the reactor to seal the leakage of radioactive material in the event of an accident with rupture of the primary circuit;

a container (core catcher) and an area of \u200b\u200bpassive cooling of the molten material in the unlikely event that the core of nuclear fuel radioactive zone can escape from the container in pressure (see containment building);

double outer wall of reinforced concrete, with a total thickness of 2.6 m, designed to withstand the direct impact of a large airliner (and in this regard are doubts arose about the real effect it would have a similar impact)

from the Wikipedia article you may experience problems design and implementation of systems that have already emerged.

in English on the site of Areva there are all the technical details of the project.