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Special issue: innovative nuclear energy technology

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  • Keeping this background in mind, the editorial board of Frontier in Energy (FIE) decided to publish the special issue on “innovative nuclear energy technology”, of which the main purpose is to upgrade the status and future needs in the deployment/development of advanced nuclear energy systems and technologies

  • Schaffrath et al review the international development of small modular reactors (SMR) with a focus on the safety strategy and the qualification of numerical analysis tools, whereas Gu and Su describe the system design, the development and the future research and development needs of the Chinese accelerator driven sub-critical reactors (ADS)

  • Two contributions review the state-of-the-art and future challenging tasks of thermal-hydraulics and safety (TH&S) of two different types of reactors, one for liquid metal cooled reactors focusing on the research progress in Europe, and the other for water cooled reactors

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Introduction

Keeping this background in mind, the editorial board of Frontier in Energy (FIE) decided to publish the special issue on “innovative nuclear energy technology”, of which the main purpose is to upgrade the status and future needs in the deployment/development of advanced nuclear energy systems and technologies. To achieve high performance of the future nuclear reactors with respect to safety, sustainability, and economy, extensive research activities are ongoing worldwide to develop advanced nuclear energy systems and related technologies.

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