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HTGR Fuel Cycle Assessment Studies
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HTGR Technology Family Assessment for a Range of Fuel Cycle Missions
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This report examines how the HTGR technology family can provide options for the once through, modified open cycle (MOC), or full recycle fuel cycle strategies. The HTGR can serve all the fuel cycle missions that an LWR can; both are thermal reactors. Additional analyses are warranted to determine if HTGR "full recycle" service could provide improved consumption of transuranic (TRU) material than LWRs (as expected), to analyze the unique proliferation resistance issues associated with the "pebble bed" approach, and to further test and analyze methods to separate TRISO-coated fuel particles from graphite and/or to separate used HTGR fuel meat from its TRISO coating. The feasibility of these two separation issues is not in doubt, but further R & D could clarify and reduce the cost and enable options not adequately explored at present. The analyses here and the now-demonstrated higher fuel burnup tests (after the illustrative designs studied here) should enable future MOC and full recycle HTGR concepts to more rapidly consume TRU, thereby offering waste management advantages. Interest in "limited separation" or "minimum fuel treatment" separation approaches motivates study of impurity-tolerant fuel fabrication. Several issues are outside the scope of this report, including the following: thorium fuel cycles, gas-cooled fast reactors, the reliability of TRISO-coated particles (billions in a reactor), and how soon any new reactor or fuel type could be licensed and then deployed and therefore impact fuel cycle performance measures.
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This report examines how the HTGR technology family can provide options for the once through, modified open cycle (MOC), or full recycle fuel cycle strategies. The HTGR can serve all the fuel cycle missions that an LWR can; both are thermal reactors. Additional analyses are warranted to determine if HTGR "full recycle" service could provide improved consumption of transuranic (TRU) material than LWRs (as expected), to analyze the unique proliferation resistance issues associated with the "pebble bed" approach, and to further test and analyze methods to separate TRISO-coated fuel particles from graphite and/or to separate used HTGR fuel meat from its TRISO coating. The feasibility of these two separation issues is not in doubt, but further R & D could clarify and reduce the cost and enable options not adequately explored at present. The analyses here and the now-demonstrated higher fuel burnup tests (after the illustrative designs studied here) should enable future MOC and full recycle HTGR concepts to more rapidly consume TRU, thereby offering waste management advantages. Interest in "limited separation" or "minimum fuel treatment" separation approaches motivates study of impurity-tolerant fuel fabrication. Several issues are outside the scope of this report, including the following: thorium fuel cycles, gas-cooled fast reactors, the reliability of TRISO-coated particles (billions in a reactor), and how soon any new reactor or fuel type could be licensed and then deployed and therefore impact fuel cycle performance measures.
Filling Knowledge Gaps with Five Fuel Cycle Studies
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High-quality Thorium TRISO Fuel Performance in HTGRs
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ISBN: 3893368736
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Languages : en
Pages : 127
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Publisher: Forschungszentrum Jülich
ISBN: 3893368736
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Pages : 127
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Advances in High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor Fuel Technology
Author: International Atomic Energy Agency
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ISBN: 9789201253101
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 639
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This publication reports on the results of a coordinated research project on advances in high temperature gas cooled reactor (HTGR) fuel technology and describes the findings of research activities on coated particle developments. These comprise two specific benchmark exercises with the application of HTGR fuel performance and fission product release codes, which helped compare the quality and validity of the computer models against experimental data. The project participants also examined techniques for fuel characterization and advanced quality assessment/quality control. The key exercise included a round-robin experimental study on the measurements of fuel kernel and particle coating properties of recent Korean, South African and US coated particle productions applying the respective qualification measures of each participating Member State. The summary report documents the results and conclusions achieved by the project and underlines the added value to contemporary knowledge on HTGR fuel.
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ISBN: 9789201253101
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 639
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This publication reports on the results of a coordinated research project on advances in high temperature gas cooled reactor (HTGR) fuel technology and describes the findings of research activities on coated particle developments. These comprise two specific benchmark exercises with the application of HTGR fuel performance and fission product release codes, which helped compare the quality and validity of the computer models against experimental data. The project participants also examined techniques for fuel characterization and advanced quality assessment/quality control. The key exercise included a round-robin experimental study on the measurements of fuel kernel and particle coating properties of recent Korean, South African and US coated particle productions applying the respective qualification measures of each participating Member State. The summary report documents the results and conclusions achieved by the project and underlines the added value to contemporary knowledge on HTGR fuel.
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
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Category : Aeronautics
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Pages : 1214
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HTGR Fuel and Fuel Cycle Technology
Author: A. L. Lotts
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Category : Gas cooled reactors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Gas cooled reactors
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Pages : 0
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AEC Research and Development Report
Author: Atomic Energy Commission
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Pages : 160
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The Radiological Risks Associated with the Thorium Fuelled HTGR Fuel Cycle
Author: D. H. Dodd
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Languages : en
Pages : 41
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Pages : 41
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Nuclear Science Abstracts
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Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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