An ultra-long-life small safe fast reactor core concept having heterogeneous driver-blanket fuel assembliesopen access
- Authors
- Choi, Kyu Jung; Jo, Yeonguk; Hong, Ser Gi
- Issue Date
- Nov-2021
- Publisher
- KOREAN NUCLEAR SOC
- Keywords
- Ultra-long-life small fast reactor; Heterogeneous assemblies; Sodium void worth; Monte Carlo depletion
- Citation
- NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, v.53, no.11, pp.3517 - 3527
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
- Volume
- 53
- Number
- 11
- Start Page
- 3517
- End Page
- 3527
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/140589
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.net.2021.05.013
- ISSN
- 1738-5733
- Abstract
- New 80-MW (electric) ultra-long-life sodium cooled fast reactor core having inherent safety characteristics is designed with heterogeneous fuel assemblies comprised of driver and blanket fuel rods. Several options using upper sodium plenum and SSFZ (Special Sodium Flowing Zone) for reducing sodium void reactivity are neutronically analyzed in this core concept in order to improve the inherent safety of the core. The SSFZ allowing the coolant flow from the peripheral fuel assemblies increases the neutron leakage under coolant expansion or voiding. The Monte Carlo calculations were used to design the cores and analyze their physics characteristics with heterogeneous models. The results of the design and analyses show that the final core design option has a small burnup reactivity swing of 618 pcm over-54 EFPYs cycle length and a very small sodium void worth of-35pcm at EOC (End of Cycle), which leads to the satisfaction of all the conditions for inherent safety with large margin based on the quasi-static reactivity balance analysis under ATWS (Anticipated Transient Without Scram).
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