Contribution of Clinch River Breeder Reactor plant design and development to the LMFBR fuel cycle
This paper describes how the CRBRP development and CRBRP focus of the LMFBR base technology program have led to advances in the state of the art in physics, thermal-hydraulics, structural analysis, core restraint, seismic analysis, and analysis of hypothetical core-disruptive accident energetics, all of which have been incorporated through disciplined engineering into the final CRBRP design. The total development in the US of fuels and materials, the analytical advances made on CRBRP design, and the incorporation of the latest experimental results into that design have put the US technology in general and the CRBRP design in particular at the forefront of technology. This has placed the US in a position to develop the most favorable LMFBR fuel cycle.
- Research Organization:
- Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN (USA). Technical Information Center; Westinghouse Electric Corp., Oak Ridge, TN (USA). Advanced Reactors Div.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC15-76CL02395
- OSTI ID:
- 6071537
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-810941-1; ON: DE81025742; TRN: 81-015992
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ANS technical base for nuclear fuel cycle policy, Newport, RI, USA, 20 Sep 1981
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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