CAREM

CAREM

CAREM is a small modular reactor (SMR) designed and being constructed in Argentina. It is an integral pressurized water reactor (PWR) with a capacity of 25-MWe or 100 MW suitable for cogeneration or desalination. The reactor has its entire primary coolant system within the reactor pressure vessel, which is self-pressurized and relies entirely on convection for modules less than 150 MWe.From: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering [2019], Modular Systems for Energy Usage Management [2020], Modular Systems for Energy and Fuel Recovery and Conversion [2019]

Nuclear power – the missing ‘renaissance’

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Published in David Toke, Geoffrey Chun-Fung Chen, Antony Froggatt, Richard Connolly, Nuclear Power in Stagnation, 2021

David Toke, Geoffrey Chun-Fung Chen, Antony Froggatt, Richard Connolly

Argentina has three reactors in operation and one, the CAREM-25 reactor, under construction. This has been under construction since February 2014 and is a small modular reactor which was originally expected to be finished in 2018. Discussions have been ongoing for decades about the construction of additional larger reactors, but lack of political will and financing have stopped any serious proposals developing.

Thermal hydraulic analysis of supercritical water reactor cooled by TiO₂ nanofluid

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Published in Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 2019

Ahmed El Kholy, Adel Alyan, Khairy Fakhry, Osayed Abu-Elyazeed

Analytical modeling [5] of the thermalhydraulic in small modular reactor (SMR) CAREM-25 has been applied when the Al2O3-water-based nanofluid is used as cooling fluid in the cooling system. Further to this analytical modeling, the reactor has been modeled by using CFD to determine the flow phenomena and distribution as well as the effect of nanoparticles of Al2O3-water based on the volume fraction (1 and 3%) on the heat transfer by natural convection.

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