Nuclear Systems Design

Our mission

The Nuclear Systems Design expert group (NSD) conceives irradiation devices to meet customers' requirements regarding:

• Fluence
• Temperature
• Chemistry

We control or perform the design, manufacturing, assembly and testing of the installations developed for large research reactors, particularly BR2.

The Nuclear Systems Design expert group has two main fields of irradiation devices:

Devices for scientific and technological programmes

• Fuels and materials for different fission reactor types, ADS and fusion reactors
  Fuel for Lead Reactor - Heat up phase (6 MB) - View online
• Fuels for MTR's
• Safety tests
• Diagnostics and remote handling sensors
• In-pile instrumentation (mainly for use in irradiation devices)

Pool side facility for silicon doping - Temperature field in moderator

Devices for commercial productions

• Radioisotopes for medical and industrial purposes
• Neutron transmutation doping of silicon (electronic industry)

More information:

• Experimental rigs for MTR's (BR2, JHR, MYRRHA)
• CALLISTO: a PWR experimental facility for scientific in-pile studies
• MISTRAL
• PWC/CCD: Pressurised Water Capsule/Cycling and Calibration Device
• ROBIN: ROtating Basket with Instrumented Needles
• SMIRNOF - A versatile in-pile reactor irradiation facility for radiation assessment of optical fibres in fission-reactor environment
• POSEIDON - Silicon Doping
• EVITA: Enhanced Velocity Irradiation Test Apparatus
• SPEED-ASTIR: material irradiation in Lead Bismuth Eutectic (LBE)
• PRF: a reloadable facility for the production of radioisotopes
• IrrDemo: irradiation of GFR fuel prototypes elements
• Nuclear in-pile instrumentation