Gas-cooled thorium reactor with fuel block of the unified design

Shamanin, I. V.; Bedenko, Sergey V.; Chertkov, Yurij Borisovich; Gubaydulin, Ildar

doi:10.1016/j.nucet.2016.01.012

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“…The obtained results with reactor core cell method performed by I.V. Shamanin [8][9] have been compared with threedimensional heterogeneous full core in this study. The obtained results have been verified with I.V.…”

Section: Results and Discussion (Sonuçlar Ve Tartışma)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The isotope amount of Pu and Th are taken from the study made by Shamanin. [9] study. The fuel has produced with a ratio of 50 % ThO2+50% RG-PuO2.…”

Section: Methods and Calculations (Metot And Hesaplamalar)mentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Each fuel channel included 120 fuel pellets with SiC clad. Technical specifications of the simulated low power HTGR have been presented in the Table 1 [8][9]. In the calculations model which has 78-channels hexagonal assembly has been used.…”

Section: Methods and Calculations (Metot And Hesaplamalar)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…All technical details can be found in the I.V. Shamanin's studies [8][9]. A pellet figure in which pebbles has been dispersed is given Fig.…”

Section: Methods and Calculations (Metot And Hesaplamalar)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since thorium cannot be a used alone, plutonium must be used as fissile fuel material for the thorium fueled reactor [1]. Previous work has investigated the incineration of plutonium in CANDU reactors [2][3][4], Fixed bed nuclear reactor (FBNR) [5], high temperature pebble bed nuclear reactors (PBMR) [6] and high-temperature gascooled reactor (HTGR) [7][8][9] SMRs contain innovative features in some of their designs. In some designs, coolant systems can use natural convection to eliminate pumps.…”

Section: Introduction (Gi̇ri̇ş)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Neutronic Assessment of High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Thorium Burner using Monte Carlo Calculation Method with Full Core Model

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In this study, the effective reactivity and burnup analyses have been performed for heterogeneous three-dimensional high-temperature gas-cooled thorium reactor (HTGR) which has 60 MWth full core geometry by using continuous-energy multi-purpose three-dimensional Monte Carlo particle transport Serpent code with ENDF/ B-VII data libraries. Nuclear fuel have been selected as 50 % ThO2+50% RG-PuO2. Firstly, effective reactivity for three different qualities of graphite for operation period have been determined. The effective reactivity showed better performance with increasing densities of graphite. Secondly, it has been also examined to ZrC and SiC cladding materials effect on the effective reactivity. It is observed that SiC has a positive effect on reactivity compared to ZrC. As a results, the full core life low-power thorium-burner HTGR have been calculated as up to ~4500 days depending on the graphite material whereas, the corresponding burn−ups came out to be ~ 189 GWd/ton, for end of life.

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Section: Results and Discussion (Sonuçlar Ve Tartışma)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The isotope amount of Pu and Th are taken from the study made by Shamanin. [9] study. The fuel has produced with a ratio of 50 % ThO2+50% RG-PuO2.…”

Section: Methods and Calculations (Metot And Hesaplamalar)mentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Methods and Calculations (Metot And Hesaplamalar)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…All technical details can be found in the I.V. Shamanin's studies [8][9]. A pellet figure in which pebbles has been dispersed is given Fig.…”

Section: Methods and Calculations (Metot And Hesaplamalar)mentioning

confidence: 99%