1. Preliminary design study of a board type radial fuel shuffling sodium cooled breed and burn reactor core.
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Zheng, Meiyin, Tian, Wenxi, Chu, Xiao, Zhang, Dalin, Qiu, Suizheng, and Su, Guanghui
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NUCLEAR fuels , *SODIUM cooled reactors , *NUCLEAR reactor cores , *POWER density , *PARAMETER estimation , *BURNUP (Nuclear chemistry) - Abstract
In this paper, a preliminary board type radial fuel shuffling sodium cooled breed and burn reactor core is designed. In the current design, a number of breeding subassemblies are arranged in the center core to ensure enough breeding. A self-developed MCNP-ORIGEN coupled system with the ENDF/B-VI data library is applied to perform neutronics and burn-up calculations. For a 2.0 m radius and 2.5 m height core, the results demonstrate the feasibility of the board type radial fuel shuffling strategy. Breeding mainly occurs in the breeding subassemblies during the first 6 fuel cycles as they are moved to the burning/breeding region. The core will become asymptotically stable after about 24 years. The discharged burn-up of most subassemblies is about 15.0–30.0%. The influences of the core size on the major core parameters, such as initial k eff , steady k eff , maximum power density, peak burn-up and burn-up ratio between breeding and ignition subassemblies are calculated and investigated. The results indicate that the initial k eff increases with fuel height and core radius and finally reaches stability; the steady k eff increases with fuel height and core radius, then reaches peak value and finally decreases; the maximum power density, the peak burn-up and the burn-up ratio between breeding and ignition subassemblies decrease with the increase of fuel height and core radius; if core radius is less than 1.875 m, they increase sharply with the decrease of core radius. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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