large electro-magnetic pump conceptual design for the astrid sodium-cooled fast reactor

T. Suzuki (1) , K. Asano (2) , R. Aizawa (1) , F. Dechelette (3)

1 Toshiba Development & Engineering Corp (Toshiba Corporation)
2 Toshiba Corporation [Kawasaki]
3 CEA-DES (ex-DEN) - CEA-Direction des Energies (ex-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire)

Within the framework of the French Sodium Fast Reactor (SFR) prototype called ASTRID (Advance Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration), an application of Large capacity Electro-Magnetic Pump (LEMP) is considered as a main concept of the circulating pump on intermediate sodium circuits by CEA. For the developing of the LEMP for ASTRID, CEA conclude a collaboration agreement with TOSHIBA Corporation in April 2012, and carry out a joint work program on design and development of LEMP. In this collaboration, the design study such as the electromagnet design, electromagnetic fluid analysis, and etc for LEMP have been perfomed. This paper describes the dedicated design studies for the LEMP development within the framework of the CEA-TOSHIBA collaboration.

Keywords: large EMP; Secondary loop; Sodium

Domains: Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]; Nuclear Theory [nucl-th]

T. Suzuki, K. Asano, R. Aizawa, F. Dechelette. large electro-magnetic pump conceptual design for the astrid sodium-cooled fast reactor. PAMIR10th - PAMIR International Conference : Fundamental and Applied MHD, Jun 2016, Cagliari, Italy. ⟨hal-02442268⟩