Proceedings of a Technical Committee meeting held in Vienna, 18–21 July 2000
IAEA, Vienna, 2002, 252 c.
IAEA-TECDOC-1281, ISSN 1011–4289
An Advisory Group Meeting (AGM) on Development of a Strategic Plan for an International
R&D Project on Innovative Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Power Plants was held in Vienna, 11–
14 October 1999.
The AGM recommended that the IAEA consider certain candidate projects
in support of the development of innovative nuclear power technology, one of which was
natural circulation systems.
As a result, a Technical Committee Meeting (TCM) on Natural Circulation Data and Methods
for Innovative Nuclear Power Plant Design was held in Vienna from 18 to 21 July 2000 and
organized according to the recommendations of the AGM. The objectives of the TCM were to
assess the current base of experimental data and the applicability of current methodologies for
computing natural convection phenomena in innovative reactor designs, and to develop
perspectives on needed improvements in models and supporting experimental data.
This TECDOC provides the papers presented and summarizes the discussions. While the
planned scope of the TCM included all types of reactor designs, the meeting participants and
papers addressed only light and heavy water reactor designs. The papers and discussion
addressed both evolutionary and innovative designs. The TECDOC title reflects the actual
scope of the meeting and materials provided herein.