Graham Kennedy

TL;DR: The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN) is at the forefront of heavy liquid-metal (HLM) nuclear technology worldwide with the development of the Multi-purpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High...

TL;DR: In recent years, extensive thermal-hydraulic experimental tests have been performed on the lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE)-cooled, wire-wrapped fuel assembly (FA) of MYRRHA as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the precise measurements of the vibrations of a very representative mock-up of a fuel assembly in a lead-bismuth eutectic cooled installation using quasi-distributed fibre Bragg grating (FBG) based sensors.

TL;DR: In this paper, various reference databases for different wire-wrapped fuel assembly configurations have been created recently and are being used for validation of engineering simulation approaches based on Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) modelling.