IRIS Final Technical Progress Report
IRIS Final Technical Progress Report
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DOI：
10.2172/816832
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发表时间：
2003-11
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
M. Carelli
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作者：
M. Carelli
这个NERI项目最初是作为安全可运输自主轻水反应堆（STAR-LW）开始的，目前被称为国际反应堆创新和安全（IRIS）项目，其目标是研究一种新型水冷反应堆，以满足第四代目标：燃料循环可持续性，增强可靠性和安全性，提高经济性。为期三年（1999-2002）的研究目标如下：第一年：评估各种设计方案并建立点设计的主要特征；第二年：对选定的设计方案进行可行性和工程评估；第三年：完成反应堆设计和性能评估，包括成本评估。这些目标已经完全实现，实际上，它们有助于启动IRIS项目，使其成为一个成熟的项目，并最终进行商业部署。该项目并没有在2002年NERI项目结束时终止，而且刚刚进入第五个年头。这是由于综合信息系统项目的参与者从最初的四名成员、两个国家的小组发展到目前的二十名成员、九个国家的联合体。所有联盟成员都在自己的资金下工作，据估计，他们在项目生命周期内的实物贡献价值约为3000万美元。目前，全球约有100人参与了该项目。IRIS项目的一个非常重要的支持者是学术界：来自四个国家的7所大学是该联盟的成员，另外还有5所美国大学通过平行的NERI项目联系在一起。到目前为止，已有97名学生参与或正在参与IRIS项目；与iris相关的研究生论文已撰写或正在撰写59篇，其中41名学生已获得硕士（33名）或博士（8名）学位。这份“最终”报告（仅就NERI项目而言是最终报告）总结了IRIS从1999年10月到2003年10月的头四年所做的工作。它提供了项目状态和设计工作的全景，重点是当前状态，因为之前的两份报告非常广泛地记录了从开始到2002年初所执行的工作。
OAK-B135 This NERI project, originally started as the Secure Transportable Autonomous Light Water Reactor (STAR-LW) and currently known as the International Reactor Innovative and Secure (IRIS) project, had the objective of investigating a novel type of water-cooled reactor to satisfy the Generation IV goals: fuel cycle sustainability, enhanced reliability and safety, and improved economics. The research objectives over the three-year (1999-2002) program were as follows: First year: Assess various design alternatives and establish main characteristics of a point design; Second year: Perform feasibility and engineering assessment of the selected design solutions; Third year: Complete reactor design and performance evaluation, including cost assessment These objectives were fully attained and actually they served to launch IRIS as a full fledged project for eventual commercial deployment. The program did not terminate in 2002 at the end of the NERI program, and has just entered in its fifth year. This has been made possible by the IRIS project participants which have grown from the original four member, two-countries team to the current twenty members, nine countries consortium. All the consortium members work under their own funding and it is estimated that the value of their in-kind contributions over the life of the project has been of the order of $30M. Currently, approximately 100 people worldwide are involved in the project. A very important constituency of the IRIS project is the academia: 7 universities from four countries are members of the consortium and five more US universities are associated via parallel NERI programs. To date, 97 students have worked or are working on IRIS; 59 IRIS-related graduate theses have been prepared or are in preparation, and 41 of these students have already graduated with M.S. (33) or Ph.D. (8) degrees. This ''final'' report (final only as far as the NERI program is concerned) summarizes the work performed in the first four years of IRIS, from October 1999 to October 2003. It provides a panoramic of the project status and design effort, with emphasis on the current status, since two previous reports have very extensively documented the work performed, from inception to early 2002.