Published 2009
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Thoria based fuel cycle for AHWR - an overview
- 1. Reactor Engineering Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India)
- 2. Radiometallurgy Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India)
- 3. Nuclear Recycle Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India)
Description
A co-located Fuel Cycle Facility (FCF) is planned for the thoria based Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR) being designed at BARC. This will have facilities for fuel fabrication, fuel reprocessing and waste management. Some of the technologically challenging issues in this are handling of the highly radioactive fresh fuel, the requirement of remote fuel fabrication and carrying three-stream aqueous reprocessing by dissolution of the stable thoria matrix. This paper gives an overview of the AHWR-FCF and the various thoria fuel cycle activities being pursued at BARC. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Imprint Place
- Mumbai (India)
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of international conference on peaceful uses of atomic energy - 2009. V. 1
- Imprint Pagination
- 408 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 226-227
Conference
- Title
- International conference on peaceful uses of atomic energy - 2009
- Dates
- 29 Sep - 1 Oct 2009
- Place
- New Delhi (India)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- India
- Country of Input or Organization
- India
- INIS RN
- 40105712
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- FUEL CYCLE; FUEL ELEMENT CLUSTERS; HWLWR TYPE REACTORS; MIXED OXIDE FUELS; THOREX PROCESS; URANIUM 233
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; ENERGY SOURCES; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; FUELS; HEAVY ION DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; HEAVY NUCLEI; HEAVY WATER MODERATED REACTORS; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS; NEON 24 DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; REPROCESSING; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SOLID FUELS; SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTOPES; URANIUM ISOTOPES; WATER COOLED REACTORS; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Notes
- 5 refs.