Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor for Improved Resource Utilization: Part I - Survey of Potential Improvements
This document is an interim report under ACDA BOA AC9NX707, Task Order 80-03, which covers the evaluation of certain potential improvements in pressurized water reactor designs intended to enhance uranium fuel utilization. The objective of these evaluations is to seek advanced, non-retrofittable improvements that could possibly be commercialized by the end of the century, and, on the basis of a preliminary evaluation, to select compatible improvements for incorporation into a composite advanced pressurized water reactor concept. The principal areas of investigation include reduced parasitic absorption of neutrons (Task 1), reduced neutron leakage (Task 2), and alternative fuel design concepts (Task 3). To the extent possible, the advanced concept developed in an earlier study (Retrofittable Modifications to Pressurized Water Reactors for Improved Resource Utilization, SSA-128, October 1980) is used as a basis in developing the advanced composite concept. The reference design considered typical of present PWR commercial practice is the system described in RESAR-414, Reference Safety Analysis Report, Westinghouse Nuclear Energy Systems, October 1976.
- Research Organization:
- Southern Science Applications, Inc., Dunedin, FL (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 802886
- Report Number(s):
- SSA-136; CNN: AC9NX707; TRN: US200301%%456
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 15 Sep 1981
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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