Evaluation of tight-pitch PWR cores
The impact of tight pinch cores on the consumption of natural uranium ore has been evaluated for two systems of coupled PWR's namely one particular type of thorium system - /sup 235/U/UO/sub 2/ : Pu/ThO/sub 2/ : /sup 233/U/ThO/sub 2/ - and the conventional recycle-mode uranium system - /sup 235/U/UO/sub 2/ : Pu/UO/sub 2/. The basic parameter varied was the fuel-to-moderator volume ratio (F/M) of the (uniform) lattice for the last core in each sequence. Although methods and data verification in the range of present interest, 0.5 (current lattices) < F/M < 4.0 are limited by the scarcity of experiments with F/M > 1.0, the EPRI-LEOPARD and LASER programs used for the thorium and uranium calculations, respectively, were successfully benchmarked against several of the more pertinent experiments.
- Research Organization:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5856887
- Report Number(s):
- COO-4570-10; MITNE-227; MIT-EL-79-022
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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