HRE-3 PRELIMINARY DESIGN SUMMARY AND REFERENCE REPORT
Preliminary design studies of HRE-3, a two-region aqueous homogeneous breeder reactors have been postponed in order to investigate slurry handling problems expected in a reactor system utilizing a slurry as the fuel and/or blanket material. As originally conceived the HRE-3 fuel solution consists of uranyl sulfate in heavy water and the blanket slurry consists of thorium oxide in heavy water. With a 50 Mw core and 10 Mw blanket (equilibrium condition), the electrical output is about 19 Mw. The reactor is designed to provide operational and technical data and to demonstrate the technical feasibility of an intermediate scale aqueous homogeneous power breeder. Being a completely integrated facility, the power plant consists of the nuclear reactor plants the electrical generating plants and the nuclear fuel recycle processing plant. A summary of the design studies and a bibliography of memoranda pertaining to the studies are given. The most recent design data, a cross-reference index to all HRE-3 drawings and sketches, and a tabulation of the expected electrical loads are appended. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- NSA Number:
- NSA-13-014058
- OSTI ID:
- 4250152
- Report Number(s):
- CF-58-11-112
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-59
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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