Preliminary Design Study of Medium Sized Gas Cooled Fast Reactor with Natural Uranium as Fuel Cycle Input

Journal Article · Tue Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4757158· OSTI ID:21410506

Meriyanti,; Su'ud, Zaki; Rijal, K ^[1]; Zuhair,; Ferhat, A ^[2]; Sekimoto, H ^[3]

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1. Nuclear Physics and Biophysics Research Division, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia)
2. National Nuclear Energ Agency of Indonesia (BATAN) (Indonesia)
3. Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)

In this study a feasibility design study of medium sized (1000 MWt) gas cooled fast reactors which can utilize natural uranium as fuel cycle input has been conducted. Gas Cooled Fast Reactor (GFR) is among six types of Generation IV Nuclear Power Plants. GFR with its hard neuron spectrum is superior for closed fuel cycle, and its ability to be operated in high temperature (850 deg. C) makes various options of utilizations become possible. To obtain the capability of consuming natural uranium as fuel cycle input, modified CANDLE burn-up scheme[1-6] is adopted this GFR system by dividing the core into 10 parts of equal volume axially. Due to the limitation of thermal hydraulic aspects, the average power density of the proposed design is selected about 70 W/cc. As an optimization results, a design of 1000 MWt reactors which can be operated 10 years without refueling and fuel shuffling and just need natural uranium as fuel cycle input is discussed. The average discharge burn-up is about 280 GWd/ton HM. Enough margin for criticality was obtained for this reactor.

• OSTI ID: 21410506
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1244, Issue 1; Conference: ICANSE 2009: 2. international conference on advances in nuclear science and engineering 2009, Bandung (Indonesia), 3-4 Nov 2009; Other Information: DOI:; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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