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Research on the incineration of plutonium in a modular HTR using thorium-based fuel
H.J. Rütten,K.A. Haas +1 more
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In this paper, an optimization of the fractions of Pu, U and Th contained in the fuel elements has been done on condition that a negative temperature coefficient of the reactivity has to be achieved over the whole range of operating temperature.About:
This article is published in Nuclear Engineering and Design.The article was published on 2000-02-02. It has received 25 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Thorium fuel cycle & MOX fuel.read more
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Use of Thorium for Transmutation of Plutonium and Minor Actinides in PWRs
TL;DR: In this article, an assessment of the potential for Th-based fuel to minimize Pu and minor actinide (MA) production in PWRs was made, and the potential to minimize both Pu and MA production was evaluated.
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Study on transmutation of minor actinides discharged from high burn-up PWR-MOX spent fuel in the force-free helical reactor
TL;DR: In this article, the burning and/or transmutation of minor actinides (MAs) has been investigated for an operation period (OP) of up to 10 years in the FFHR by 75% plant factor (η) under a neutron wall load (P) of 1.5 MW/m2.
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Thorium-Based Fuel Cycles in the Modular High Temperature Reactor
TL;DR: In this paper, the thorium absorption cross sections of the resolved and unresolved resonances were generated using the ZUT-DGL code based on existing resonance data, and the equilibrium core of the modular HTR was calculated and analyzed by means of the code VSOP'94.
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Automated Design and Optimization of Pebble-Bed Reactor Cores
TL;DR: PEBBED, a reactor physics code specifically designed to solve for the asymptotic burnup state of pebble bed reactors in conjunction with a genetic algorithm to obtain a core with acceptable properties is employed.
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Neutronic analysis of the PBMR-400 full core using thorium fuel mixed with plutonium or minor actinides
Adem Acır,Hasan Coşkun +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the time evolution of criticality and burnup grades of the PBMR were investigated for reactor grade plutonium and minor actinides in the spent fuel of light water reactors (LWRs) mixed with thoria.
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V. S. O. P. ('94) Computer Code System for Reactor Physics and Fuel Cycle Simulation
Eberhardt Teuchert,Winfried Scherer,H. J. Rütten,Klaus-Arne Haas,H. Brockmann,U. Ohlig,Helmut Gerwin +6 more
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The Modular High-Temperature Reactor
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that nearly all problems encountered in large high-temperature reactor power plants with respect to design and safety are related to the mere physical size of a larger reactor core.