Study of Some Innovant Reactors without on- Site Refueling with Triso and Cermet Fuel
The evaluation of unit cell neutronic parameters and
lifetime for some innovant reactors without on sit-refuling will be
held in this work. the behavior of some small and medium reactors
without on site refueling with triso and cermet fuel. For the FBNR
long life except we propose to change the enrichment of the Cermet
MFE to 9%. For the AFPR reactor we can see that the use of the
Cermet MFE can extend the life of this reactor but to maintain the
same life period for AFPR-SC we most use burnup poison to have the
same slope for Kinf (Burnup). PFPWR50 cell behaves almost in
same way using both fuels Cermet and TRISO. So we can conclude
that PFPWR50 reactor, with CERMET Fuel, is kept among the long
cycle reactors and with the new configuration we avoid subcriticality
at the beginning of cycle. The evaluation of unit cell neutronic
parameters reveals a good agreement with the goal of BWR-PB
concept. It is found out that the Triso fuel assembly lifetime can be
extended for a reasonably long period without being refueled,
approximately up to 48GWd/t burnup. Using coated particles fuels
with the Cermet composition can be more extended the fuel assembly
life time, approximately 52 GWd/t.
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Meriwether, Alan E. Waltar, Winston W. Little, Jr. Darrell F. Newman,
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Nuclear Reactor Without Open-Vessel Re-Fueling" March (2005).
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boiling water reactor (BWR-PB)" (2005).
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Reactor (FBNR) Concept" (2005).
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Coated Particle Fuel By Using Thorium and Plutonium" Proc.
Global2005 (Oct 9-13, Tsukuba, Japan (2005))..
[1] K. Okumura, K. Kaneko, K. Tsuchihashi. "SRAC95; General purpose
neutronics code system" (1996).
[2] R. Sanchez and Al. "Apollo- II:A User-Oriented, Portable, Modular
Code for Multigroup Transport Assembly Calculations" Proc. Int. Top.
Mtg. Advances in Reactor Physics, Mathematics and Computation,
Paris, France, April 27-30 (1987).
[3] Georgi V. Tsiklauri, Frank A. Garner, Thomas E. Shea, George H.
Meriwether, Alan E. Waltar, Winston W. Little, Jr. Darrell F. Newman,
Ronald P. Omberg, Robert J. Talbert, Brian W. Smith "Long life Small
Nuclear Reactor Without Open-Vessel Re-Fueling" March (2005).
[4] Evgeny Grishanin, "Concept of a lifetime-core particle-bedded 300Mwe
boiling water reactor (BWR-PB)" (2005).
[5] Farhang Sefidvash, "Conceptual Design of the Fixed Bed Nuclear
Reactor (FBNR) Concept" (2005).
[6] Izuho Tanihira, Yoichiro Shimazu, "Extending the Life of PWR with
Coated Particle Fuel By Using Thorium and Plutonium" Proc.
Global2005 (Oct 9-13, Tsukuba, Japan (2005))..
@article{"International Journal of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences:58535", author = "A.Chetaine and A. Benchrif and H. Amsil and V. Kuznetsov and Y. Shimazu", title = "Study of Some Innovant Reactors without on- Site Refueling with Triso and Cermet Fuel", abstract = "The evaluation of unit cell neutronic parameters and
lifetime for some innovant reactors without on sit-refuling will be
held in this work. the behavior of some small and medium reactors
without on site refueling with triso and cermet fuel. For the FBNR
long life except we propose to change the enrichment of the Cermet
MFE to 9%. For the AFPR reactor we can see that the use of the
Cermet MFE can extend the life of this reactor but to maintain the
same life period for AFPR-SC we most use burnup poison to have the
same slope for Kinf (Burnup). PFPWR50 cell behaves almost in
same way using both fuels Cermet and TRISO. So we can conclude
that PFPWR50 reactor, with CERMET Fuel, is kept among the long
cycle reactors and with the new configuration we avoid subcriticality
at the beginning of cycle. The evaluation of unit cell neutronic
parameters reveals a good agreement with the goal of BWR-PB
concept. It is found out that the Triso fuel assembly lifetime can be
extended for a reasonably long period without being refueled,
approximately up to 48GWd/t burnup. Using coated particles fuels
with the Cermet composition can be more extended the fuel assembly
life time, approximately 52 GWd/t.", keywords = "Cermet., Trisot, without on site refueling.", volume = "6", number = "11", pages = "1534-7", }