Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Technology, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey
Abstract
This study presents neutronic analyses of a small modular reactor utilizing
transuranium and thorium. Two different fuel cases are considered in the
analyses as the transuranium extracted from PWR-MOX spent fuel (a form of a
mixture of minor actinide and Pu isotopes) (Case A) and 4.5 % enriched UO2
with ThO 2(the form of separate fuel rods) (Case B). The total power of
the considered small modular reactor containing 69 assemblies is 450 MW
thermal. In both fuel cases, the time-dependent critical burnup calculations
are carried out by using MCNPX 2.7 code until their effective neutron
multiplication factors decrease to 0.99. The calculations bring out that the
small modular reactor can operate for quite a long time without refueling
and that a new fuel with a richness of 1.05 % can be obtained from ThO as
well 2 as energy production.
Publisher
National Library of Serbia
Subject
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality,Nuclear Energy and Engineering
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