Characteristics of Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor with Self-Sustainability
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- MITACHI Koshi
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology
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- YAMAMOTO Takahisa
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology
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- YOSHIOKA Ritsuo
- Japan Functional Safety Laboratory
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- SUGIMOTO Tetsuya
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology
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- Other Title
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- 自給自足型トリウム熔融塩炉の特性
- ジキュウ ジソクガタ トリウム ヨウユウ エンロ ノ トクセイ
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Abstract
In this paper, the burn-up characteristics of a 200 MWe molten-salt reactor are studied. This reactor has a three-region core in order to reduce the peak in fast neutron flux distribution. The reactor is operated for 30 years with the load factor of 0.75. The fuel is fed to the reactor every 33 days. The chemical processing of the fuel salt is performed every 7.5 years. Based on calculations using the nuclear analysis code SRAC2006 and the burn-up analysis code ORIGEN2, the following results have been obtained. (1) The graphite moderators can be used throughout the reactor lifetime without replacement. (2) The reactor is self-sustainable having an average fuel conversion ratio of 1.01. (3) The initial inventory of 233U is 1.13 t, net feed in 30 years is 0.34 t; thus, the necessary amount of 233U is 1.48 t. (4) Pu isotopes are produced at 1.5 kg and minor actinides at 27 kg per 1 GWe output in 30 years, which are absolutely small compared with those produced by BWR.<br>
Journal
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- Transactions of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan
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Transactions of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan 7 (2), 127-133, 2008
Atomic Energy Society of Japan
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- CRID
- 1390282680164001280
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- NII Article ID
- 10020753296
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- NII Book ID
- AA11643165
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- COI
- 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD1cXpsVKqsb0%3D
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- ISSN
- 21862931
- 13472879
- http://id.crossref.org/issn/13472879
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- NDL BIB ID
- 9532493
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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- Disallowed