EUROCOURSE on High Temperature Reactors

Within the Education & Training activities of the RAPHAEL project a EUROCOURSE on Very/ High Temperature Reactor (V/HTR) technology has been organised.

It addresses:

Students working for their master and Ph.D. thesis
as well as young engineers and researchers

This course has been split in 3 seminars allowing the course participants to follow the projects progress and to discuss with experts.

The first seminar did take place in Stuttgart. It covered the topics:

Introduction of the HTR technology
core physics
thermal hydraulics of the core

The second seminar did take place in Petten (The Netherlands) December 2007
Topics covered:

General Information on V/HTR
Coated Particle Fuel Design
Fuel Fabrication
Fuel Characterisation Techniques
Fuel Irradiation and PIE
Fuel Waste Processing and Storage

The third seminar did take pace in Aix en Provence / Cadarache (France) in November 2008.
It covered the topics:

Introduction to the V/HTR plant
Materials and components
Safety aspects
Possible application and processes
System integration

The presentations of the all the three seminars can be found on the following web site:

At present not all presentations of the third EUROCURSE seminar are available on the web site mentioned above. But we are working hard to make all available as soon as possible.

The web site is protected by username and password. Please mail to eurocourse@raphael-project.org and we will provide you the information to access this pages.

For further questions and details concerning the EUROCOURSE please contact us: eurocourse@raphael-project.org