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Some aspects of optimising the reactor core for a 600 MW(e) high temperature helium turbine power plant

Abstract

For the HHT 600 MW(e) power plant a core design with Triagonal blocks containing 24 channels with directly cooled fuel pins was considered. The design was found to require a low HM loading in the fuel zone to achieve favourable economic merits. For low HM densities a strong incentive exists to aim for burn-ups between 80 and 100 GWd/t. At the present an average discharge irradiation of 80 GWd/t was thought feasible and a reference design with a HM density of 0.6 g/cm {sup 3} in both core zones was chosen. The optimisation is not likely to be upset by local hot channel effects as a special investigation into the influence of safety margins found no changes in fuel cycle economics.
Publication Date:
Apr 24, 1972
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
DCPM-14/Dragon-1
Resource Relation:
Conference: 14. Dragon Countries Physics Meeting, Ispra (Italy), May 1972; Other Information: Portions of the full text have limited legibility; a few hand-written notations are also included
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; DRAGON REACTOR; HTGR TYPE REACTORS; EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS
Sponsoring Organizations:
OECD Dragon Project, Paris (France)
OSTI ID:
21160971
Research Organizations:
OECD Dragon Project, Paris (France)
Country of Origin:
NEA
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
TRN: XN72OS001
Availability:
Commercial reproduction prohibited; OSTI as DE21160971
Submitting Site:
OSTI
Size:
20 pages
Announcement Date:
May 21, 2009

Citation Formats

Hansen, U, and Presser, W. Some aspects of optimising the reactor core for a 600 MW(e) high temperature helium turbine power plant. NEA: N. p., 1972. Web.
Hansen, U, & Presser, W. Some aspects of optimising the reactor core for a 600 MW(e) high temperature helium turbine power plant. NEA.
Hansen, U, and Presser, W. 1972. "Some aspects of optimising the reactor core for a 600 MW(e) high temperature helium turbine power plant." NEA.
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title = {Some aspects of optimising the reactor core for a 600 MW(e) high temperature helium turbine power plant}
author = {Hansen, U, and Presser, W}
abstractNote = {For the HHT 600 MW(e) power plant a core design with Triagonal blocks containing 24 channels with directly cooled fuel pins was considered. The design was found to require a low HM loading in the fuel zone to achieve favourable economic merits. For low HM densities a strong incentive exists to aim for burn-ups between 80 and 100 GWd/t. At the present an average discharge irradiation of 80 GWd/t was thought feasible and a reference design with a HM density of 0.6 g/cm {sup 3} in both core zones was chosen. The optimisation is not likely to be upset by local hot channel effects as a special investigation into the influence of safety margins found no changes in fuel cycle economics.}
place = {NEA}
year = {1972}
month = {Apr}
}