Conceptual Design study of Small Long-life Gas Cooled Fast Reactor With Modified CANDLE Burn-up Scheme
- 1. Nuclear Physics and Biophysics Research Division, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia)
- 2. National Nuclear Energ Agency of Indonesia (BATAN) (Indonesia)
- 3. Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
Description
In this paper, conceptual design study of Small Long-life Gas Cooled Fast Reactors with Natural Uranium as Fuel Cycle Input has been performed. In this study Gas Cooled Fast Reactor is slightly modified by employing modified CANDLE burn-up scheme so that it can use Natural Uranium as fuel cycle input. Due to their hard spectrum, GCFR in this study showed very good performance in converting U-238 to plutonium in order to maintain the operation condition requirement of long-life reactors. Due to the limitation of thermal hydraulic aspects, the average power density of the proposed design is selected about 70 W/cc. With such condition we got an optimal design of 325 MWt reactors which can be operated 10 years without refueling and fuel shuffling and just need natural uranium as fuel cycle input. The average discharge burn-up is about 290 GWd/ton HM.
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Journal Volume
- 1244
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 31-36
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- CODEN
- APCPCS
Conference
- Title
- 2. international conference on advances in nuclear science and engineering 2009
- Acronym
- ICANSE 2009
- Dates
- 3-4 Nov 2009
- Place
- Bandung (Indonesia)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 42003661
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BURNUP; FAST REACTORS; FISSION; FUEL CYCLE; NATURAL URANIUM; NUCLEAR FUELS; PLUTONIUM; POWER DENSITY; REACTOR FUELING; SAFEGUARDS; SPECTRA; URANIUM 238
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ACTINIDES; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY SOURCES; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; FUELS; HEAVY NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS; METALS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTOPES; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM; URANIUM ISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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- Notes
- (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics