Published 1990 | Version v1
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100% plutonium recycling feasibility in a 900 MWe PWR core

  • 1. CEA Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay, 91 - Gif-sur-Yvette (France). Inst. de Recherche Technologique et de Developpement Industriel

Description

This study is focalized on a control mean research for a 900 MWe PWR loaded only with mixed oxyde assemblies. The reactivity balances induce temperature limits not to go under for various control modes (black and grey). This study stage leads to the imperative need to conceive very efficient rods. Only B4C seems to satisfy these control conditions. So different absorber rod geometries and compositions are examined more precisely. The materials considered are, on one hand for the rod core, the usual AIC, Hafnium and enriched high density B4C; on the other hand for the clad, SS304 steel and Hafnium

Part of:
The Physics of Reactors: Operation, Design and Computation. Volume 1

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Publishing Information

Publisher
Societe Francaise pour l'Energie Nucleaire.
Imprint Place
Paris (France)
Imprint Title
The physics of reactors: operation, design and computation. Volume 1
Imprint Pagination
593 p.
Journal Page Range
p. VI.1-VI.10.

Conference

Title
Operation, Design and Computation.
Acronym
International Conference on the Physics of Reactors
Dates
23-27 Apr 1990.
Place
Marseille (France).

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