Thorium fuel cycle study for PWR applications
Description
A nuclear design feasibility of thorium fueled high converting PWR was investigated. Two kinds of fuel design option were tested for the comparison with conventional UO2 fuel. The first one was an application of MHTGR pyro-carbon coated particle fuels. The other design was an application of MOX fuels as a ThO2-PuO2 ceramic pellet. In the case of carbon-coated particle fuels, there was no benefit in nuclear design aspect because enrichment of U-235 was required over 5 w/o in order to match with the K-infinite of Ulchin-3/4 fuels. However, the use of thorium based plutonium fuels in PWR gave favorable aspects in nuclear design such as flatter K-infinite curve, lower M. T. C. and lower F. T. C. than that of UO2 fuel. (author). 6 refs., 3 tabs., 6 figs
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Publishing Information
- Publisher
- KAERI.
- Imprint Place
- Taejon (Korea, Republic of)
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the second seminar on the new fuel technology toward the 21st century, November 25-26, 1997, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Taejon, Korea
- Imprint Pagination
- 198 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 69-77.
- Report number
- INIS-KR--0004
Conference
- Title
- 2. Seminar on the new fuel technology toward the 21st century.
- Dates
- 25-26 Nov 1997.
- Place
- Taejon (Korea, Republic of).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Korea, Republic of
- Country of Input or Organization
- Korea, Republic of
- INIS RN
- 29009940
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- HETEROGENEOUS REACTOR CORES; MIXED OXIDE FUELS; NUCLEAR FUELS; PLUTONIUM OXIDES; PWR TYPE REACTORS; THORIUM CYCLE; THORIUM OXIDES
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; CHALCOGENIDES; ENERGY SOURCES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FUEL CYCLE; FUELS; MATERIALS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS; POWER REACTORS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR CORES; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; SOLID FUELS; THERMAL REACTORS; THORIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSURANIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS