Flexible Conversion Ratio Fast Reactor Systems Evaluation Final Report
Name
NFC-101-PR.pdf
Description
NFC-101-PR
Size
13.48 MB
Format
Adobe PDF
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Author(s)
Todreas, Neil E.
Hejzlar, Pavel
Fong, Chris J.
Nikiforova, Anna
Petroski, Robert
Shwageraus, Eugene
Whitman, Joshua
Date Issued
June 2008
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems. Nuclear Fuel Cycle Program
Series/Report no.
MIT-NFC;PR-101
Abstract
Executive Summary:
The goal of this project is to develop the conceptual designs of fast flexible conversion
ratio reactors using lead and liquid salt coolants and to compare the results with a gascooled fast reactor developed in an MIT NERI project and a sodium-cooled reactor under
development at ANL. To maintain the scope of the study manageable within the 2-year
time frame and funding constraints, core designs that fit in the same reactor plant were
executed for two limiting conversion ratios: (1) near zero, to transmute legacy waste and
(2) near unity, to operate in a sustainable closed cycle. To reap the benefits of economy
of scale, a large power rating of 2400MWt was set as the target thermal power for both
reactor designs. In addition, the achievement of inherent reactor shutdown in unprotected
accidents (without scram) was set as a desirable goal.
Description
Project DE-FC07-06ID14733
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