TY - GEN

T1 - The UK National Thermal-Hydraulics Facility: Motivations, Design and Planning Status

AU - Dahlfors, Marcus

AU - Joannou, Jason

AU - Brummitt, Amanda

AU - Rushton, Michael

AU - Middleburgh, Simon

AU - Lee, Bill

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - A UK National Thermal-Hydraulics Facility (NTHF) dedicated to supporting new reactor and other relevant business is being developed, one of the purposes being to deliver on the government’s carbon emission reduction commitments. The facility site is foreseen to be at Menai Science Park on the isle of Anglesey in North Wales, a region expected to see significant low carbon energy deployment in coming years. The UK NTHF is envisioned to cater for the needs of emerging nuclear in the UK – but also to serve as a hardware platform for international thermal-hydraulics research collaboration. Plans are to construct a platform capable of maintaining several test loops including support for the UK’s on-going, conventional nuclear new build programme as well as Gen-IV systems and associated materials like molten salt and liquid metal coolant media. Motivations are given for NTHF expected capabilities and requirements, which form the basis for its current design and planning state.

AB - A UK National Thermal-Hydraulics Facility (NTHF) dedicated to supporting new reactor and other relevant business is being developed, one of the purposes being to deliver on the government’s carbon emission reduction commitments. The facility site is foreseen to be at Menai Science Park on the isle of Anglesey in North Wales, a region expected to see significant low carbon energy deployment in coming years. The UK NTHF is envisioned to cater for the needs of emerging nuclear in the UK – but also to serve as a hardware platform for international thermal-hydraulics research collaboration. Plans are to construct a platform capable of maintaining several test loops including support for the UK’s on-going, conventional nuclear new build programme as well as Gen-IV systems and associated materials like molten salt and liquid metal coolant media. Motivations are given for NTHF expected capabilities and requirements, which form the basis for its current design and planning state.

KW - Thermal-hydraulics

KW - Design

KW - Testing

KW - facility

U2 - 10.1051/epjconf/202124720006

DO - 10.1051/epjconf/202124720006

M3 - Conference contribution

VL - 247

BT - EPJ Web of Conferences

PB - EDP Sciences

ER -