Reference Core Concepts for 1000 MWt Advanced Burner Reactor
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Using ternary metal and mixed oxide fuels, the reference ABR core concepts of 1000 MWt power rating were developed for the study on future fast reactor design options. Compact core concepts of medium TRU conversion ratio were developed by trade-off between the burnup reactivity loss and TRU conversion ratio, with a fixed cycle length of one-year. The same radial core layout and assembly dimensions were used for both metal and oxide fuel core concepts in order to allow the interchange of metal and oxide fuel assemblies. Two core concepts were developed for both metal and oxide cores: startup and TRU recycled equilibrium cores. The weapons-grade plutonium was used as the TRU feed of the startup core without recycling the ABR spent fuel. For the recycled core, the TRU recovered from the ABR spent fuel was used as the primary TRU feed and the TRU from LWR spent fuel was used as the makeup feed. The core consists of 180 drivers, 114 reflectors, 66 shields, and 15 primary and 4 secondary control assemblies.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 2331490
- Report Number(s):
- ANL-AFCI--193; 187814
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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