Deployment Scenario of Heavy Water Cooled Thorium Breeder Reactor

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

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3462748· OSTI ID:21410479

Mardiansah, Deby; Takaki, Naoyuki ^[1]

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1. Course of Applied Science, School of Engineering, Tokai University (Japan)

Deployment scenario of heavy water cooled thorium breeder reactor has been studied. We have assumed to use plutonium and thorium oxide fuel in water cooled reactor to produce {sup 233}U which will be used in thorium breeder reactor. The objective is to analysis the potential of water cooled Th-Pu reactor for replacing all of current LWRs especially in Japan. In this paper, the standard Pressurize Water Reactor (PWR) has been designed to produce 3423 MWt; (i) Th-Pu PWR, (ii) Th-Pu HWR (MFR = 1.0) and (iii) Th-Pu HWR (MFR 1.2). The properties and performance of the core were investigated by using cell and core calculation code. Th-Pu PWR or HWR produces {sup 233}U to introduce thorium breeder reactor. The result showed that to replace all (60 GWe) LWR by thorium breeder reactor within a period of one century, Th-Pu oxide fueled PWR has insufficient capability to produce necessary amount of {sup 233}U and Th-Pu oxide fueled HWR has almost enough potential to produce {sup 233}U but shows positive void reactivity coefficient.

• OSTI ID: 21410479
• 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: 10.1063/1.3462748; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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