Conceptual design study on very small long-life gas cooled fast reactor using metallic natural Uranium-Zr as fuel cycle input

Monado, Fiber (2014) Conceptual design study on very small long-life gas cooled fast reactor using metallic natural Uranium-Zr as fuel cycle input. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1584 (1). pp. 1-5. ISSN 0094243X, 15517616

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Abstract

A conceptual design study of very small 350 MWth Gas-cooled Fast Reactors with Helium coolant has been performed. In this study Modified CANDLE burn-up scheme was implemented to create small and long life fast reactors with natural Uranium as fuel cycle input. Such system can utilize natural Uranium resources efficiently without the necessity of enrichment plant or reprocessing plant. The core with metallic fuel based was subdivided into 10 regions with the same volume. The fresh Natural Uranium is initially put in region-1, after one cycle of 10 years of burn-up it is shifted to region-2 and the each region-1 is filled by fresh Natural Uranium fuel. This concept is basically applied to all axial regions. The reactor discharge burn-up is 31.8% HM. From the neutronic point of view, this design is in compliance with good performance.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics > QC1-999 Physics
Divisions:	08-Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science > 45102-Physics (S2)
Depositing User:	Dr Fiber Monado
Date Deposited:	20 Jun 2023 02:15
Last Modified:	20 Jun 2023 02:15
URI:	http://repository.unsri.ac.id/id/eprint/111791

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