Abstract
This note presents some preliminary results of a recent work performed jointly by EURATOM (CCR Ispra) and BELGONUCLEAIRE. The analysis of the results is still in progress and a more comprehensive presentation will be made later. The purpose of the study was the evaluation of the savings in fuel cycle cost which could result from the relaxation of the limits on some fuels parameters - heavy metal loading, burnup and age factor - while keeping unchanged the geometry of the fuel element and that of the reactor. Within the range considered and the economic assumptions used, the most obvious saving which can be obtained from the increase of one of the limits seems that made possible by the increase of heavy metal loading. This saving is 2% in fuel cycle cost without any change in resonance integral and 4.5% with a reduction of 10% in resonance integral. An increase of the admissible burnup is also very rewarding, provided the resonance integral can be increased in order to keep the age factor down to 1.085.
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Graziani,, and Trauwaert,.
Expected savings from the relaxation of the limits on some fuel parameters for an HTR tubular interacting fuel element of fixed geometry.
NEA: N. p.,
1971.
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Graziani,, & Trauwaert,.
Expected savings from the relaxation of the limits on some fuel parameters for an HTR tubular interacting fuel element of fixed geometry.
NEA.
Graziani,, and Trauwaert,.
1971.
"Expected savings from the relaxation of the limits on some fuel parameters for an HTR tubular interacting fuel element of fixed geometry."
NEA.
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title = {Expected savings from the relaxation of the limits on some fuel parameters for an HTR tubular interacting fuel element of fixed geometry}
author = {Graziani,, and Trauwaert,}
abstractNote = {This note presents some preliminary results of a recent work performed jointly by EURATOM (CCR Ispra) and BELGONUCLEAIRE. The analysis of the results is still in progress and a more comprehensive presentation will be made later. The purpose of the study was the evaluation of the savings in fuel cycle cost which could result from the relaxation of the limits on some fuels parameters - heavy metal loading, burnup and age factor - while keeping unchanged the geometry of the fuel element and that of the reactor. Within the range considered and the economic assumptions used, the most obvious saving which can be obtained from the increase of one of the limits seems that made possible by the increase of heavy metal loading. This saving is 2% in fuel cycle cost without any change in resonance integral and 4.5% with a reduction of 10% in resonance integral. An increase of the admissible burnup is also very rewarding, provided the resonance integral can be increased in order to keep the age factor down to 1.085.}
place = {NEA}
year = {1971}
month = {Jun}
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title = {Expected savings from the relaxation of the limits on some fuel parameters for an HTR tubular interacting fuel element of fixed geometry}
author = {Graziani,, and Trauwaert,}
abstractNote = {This note presents some preliminary results of a recent work performed jointly by EURATOM (CCR Ispra) and BELGONUCLEAIRE. The analysis of the results is still in progress and a more comprehensive presentation will be made later. The purpose of the study was the evaluation of the savings in fuel cycle cost which could result from the relaxation of the limits on some fuels parameters - heavy metal loading, burnup and age factor - while keeping unchanged the geometry of the fuel element and that of the reactor. Within the range considered and the economic assumptions used, the most obvious saving which can be obtained from the increase of one of the limits seems that made possible by the increase of heavy metal loading. This saving is 2% in fuel cycle cost without any change in resonance integral and 4.5% with a reduction of 10% in resonance integral. An increase of the admissible burnup is also very rewarding, provided the resonance integral can be increased in order to keep the age factor down to 1.085.}
place = {NEA}
year = {1971}
month = {Jun}
}