CANDU 300 - AECL, Canada

Clegg, L. J Coady, J. R., "Radioactive Decay Properties of CANDU fuel Volume 1. The Natural Uranium Fuel Cycle," AECL-4436/1, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada, 1977. 

Nuclearelectrica s.a. is 90.28 percent owned by the Romanian government and it reports to the Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica (SNN) (National Nuclear Corporation) headquartered in Bucharest. The Cernavoda project has involved numerous collaborations with international companies, most notably Atomic Energy Canada Ltd. (AECL), designers of the CANDU-6 power plant. The Cemavoda 1 and 2 projects were delivered by AECL in collaboration with the Italian engineering firm Ansaldo. During the construction period the management team comprised representatives from SNN, AECL and Ansaldo (Mihai, 2008). 

In 1967, CNEA initiated the feasibility study for the construction of Embalse Nuclear Power Plant (CNE) and in 1973 signed a contract with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) and Societa Italiani Impianti P.A. (IT) for a 600 MW(e) CANDU-PHW (pressurized heavy water) type nuclear power plant. The construction of the station began in May 1974 and the commercial operation started in January 1984. 

Probabilistic analysis has been a hallmark of CANDU safety philosophy since its inception Canada remains one of the few countries whose regulations are based largely on probabilistic considerations. Probabilistic safety assessments have been performed for the Darlington station by Ontario Hydro, and for CANDU 6 in a joint study by AECL and the Dutch research organization KEMA. Both studies reached a similar conclusion e.g. because of the redundant heat removal paths in CANDU, and redundant shutdown systems, the predicted severe core damage frequency is less than about 4x10-6 events/year. 

Designer/Supplier address AECL CANDU, Saskatoon, Sk. Canada S7K 2C3... 

Key temperature and pressure parameters of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited s (AECL) CANDU 6 and India s proposed advanced HWR are summarized in Table 4.1. 

Beaudoin, R.R. and P. Pattantyus. 1997. Comparison of Dry Fuel Storage Costs and Required Land Area for CANDU 9 and Light Water Reactors (LWRs) in South Korea, Appendix B in Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Report. AECL-11892,41-48. 

Milgram, M.S. 1982. Once Through Thorium Cycles in CANDU Reactors, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Report, AECL-7516. 

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, CANDU Nuclear Power Station, available from Marketing Divison, AECL, 275 Slater Street, Ottawa, Ontario. 

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, CANDU 600 (1979), available from Public Affairs Office, AECL, Sheridan Park, Mississauga, Ontario. 

An agreement to submit design descriptions for this report was not reached with the designers of BREST-300 lead cooled fast reactor from RDIPE (NIKIET) of the Russian Federation and the designers of CANDU X NC reactor from AECL of Canada (the latter is a Generation IV system with supercritical light water coolant). A description of the BREST-300 can be found in reference [21]. 

Figure A1.26 Simplified flow diagram of SIS-MW, CANDU reactor NPP (Pickering Power Plant, Ontario, Canada) (AECL Report, 1969) these 515-MWei CANDU reactors are the smallest ones in Canada, and first two of them were put into operation in 1971. 

CANDU—CANada Deuterium Uranium, is a registered trademark of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL). 

H. Hanninen, U. Ehmsten, and J. Talonen, Environmentally-assisted cracking of cold worked stainless steels—A mechanistic point of view, in Proceedings of Work Shop on Cold Work in Iron and Nickel-Base Alloys Exposed to High Temperature Water Environments, Sponsored by CANDU Owners Group, AECL and EPRT, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 3-8,2007. 

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