Research reactors

Construction and Reconstruction of research reactors

Research and training reactors are much smaller then the power reactors produced by ŠKODA JS a.s. However, they still play an important part in the development of both nuclear engineering and nuclear production. Since 1970, ŠKODA JS has supplied seven such reactors to Nuclear Research Institute Řež (NRI), the Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague, and finally the research centre of  ŠKODA itself.

ŠKODA JS, with reference to its own project, is capable of designing, manufacturing and supplying the research reactors. Moreover, ŠKODA JS can also assist at the design stage and production of custom-made models, or the modernization of old equipment.

Within the framework of a contract concluded with ÚJV Řež with respect to the technological part for the “Scientific and Technical Park and Business Incubator Řež”, ŠKODA JS supplied an experimental supercritical water loop (SCWL) in 2008. This device is unique in the whole world and is used to survey the materials of newly designed Generation IV. supercritical water reactors (SCWR) and to study water radiolysis at supercritical parameters.

After the successful upgrade of the control and protection system of the VR-1 training reactor at the Czech Technical University in Prague, ŠKODA JS also upgraded analogical systems of the LR-0 research reactor in the Nuclear Research Institute in Řež in 2008. A new control system for demineralized water preparation and a special, power-operated closure of the reactor’s experimental horizontal channel were supplied for the VR-1 training reactor.

Based on its abundant experience, ŠKODA JS has an ambition to participate in the supplies for the technological part of the ITER fusion reactor in the French nuclear research centre Cadarache. The company is one of the members of the free association of companies “Czech Industry for ITE R”, which comprises firms interested in the supply of components and services for the construction of the ITE R fusion reactor.

Photogallery on the topic

  • Experimental light-water research reactor LVR – 15 in ÚJV Řež Experimental light-water research reactor LVR – 15 in ÚJV Řež
  • Experimental light-water research reactor LVR – 15 in ÚJV Řež Experimental light-water research reactor LVR – 15 in ÚJV Řež
  • Experimental light-water research reactor LVR – 15 in ÚJV Řež Experimental light-water research reactor LVR – 15 in ÚJV Řež
  • Research training reactor VR − 1, ČVUT Prague Research training reactor VR − 1, ČVUT Prague
  • Research training reactor VR − 1, ČVUT Prague Research training reactor VR − 1, ČVUT Prague
  • Research training reactor VR − 1, ČVUT Prague Research training reactor VR − 1, ČVUT Prague
  • Research training reactor VR − 1, ČVUT Prague Research training reactor VR − 1, ČVUT Prague
  • Experimental research training reactor VR - 1 Experimental research training reactor VR - 1
  • Research training reactor VR − 1, ČVUT Prague Research training reactor VR − 1, ČVUT Prague

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