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Title: A comparison of equilibrium and non-equilibrium cycle methods for Na-cooled ATW system.

Abstract

An equilibrium cycle method, embodied in the REBUS-3[1] code system, has generally been used in conventional fast reactor design activities. The equilibrium cycle method provides an efficient approach for modeling reactor system, compared to the more traditional non-equilibrium cycle fuel management calculation approach. Recently, the equilibrium analysis method has been utilized for designing Accelerator Transmutation of Waste (ATW)[2,3,4] cores, in which a scattered-reloading fuel management scheme is used. Compared with the conventional fast reactors, the ATW core is significantly different in several aspects since its main mission is to incinerate the transuranic (TRU) fuels. The high burnup non-fertile fuel has large variations in composition and reactivity during its lifetime. Furthermore, a relatively short cycle length is utilized in the ATW design to limit the potentially large reactivity swing over a cycle, and consequently 7 or 8-batch fuel management is usually assumed for a high fuel burnup. The validity of the equilibrium analysis method for the ATW core, therefore, needed to be verified. The main objective of this paper is to assess the validity of the equilibrium analysis method for a Na-cooled ATW core[4], which is an alternative core design of the ATW system under development.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab., IL (US)
Sponsoring Org.:
US Department of Energy (US)
OSTI Identifier:
795824
Report Number(s):
ANL/RAE/CP-107170
TRN: US0201408
DOE Contract Number:  
W-31-109-ENG-38
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: American Nuclear Society 2002 Annual Meeting, Hollywood, FL (US), 06/09/2002--06/13/2002; Other Information: PBD: 30 Mar 2002
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; ACCELERATORS; BURNUP; DESIGN; FAST REACTORS; FUEL MANAGEMENT; LIFETIME; TRANSMUTATION; WASTES

Citation Formats

Kim, Y, Hill, R N, and Taiwo, T A. A comparison of equilibrium and non-equilibrium cycle methods for Na-cooled ATW system.. United States: N. p., 2002. Web.
Kim, Y, Hill, R N, & Taiwo, T A. A comparison of equilibrium and non-equilibrium cycle methods for Na-cooled ATW system.. United States.
Kim, Y, Hill, R N, and Taiwo, T A. 2002. "A comparison of equilibrium and non-equilibrium cycle methods for Na-cooled ATW system.". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/795824.
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abstractNote = {An equilibrium cycle method, embodied in the REBUS-3[1] code system, has generally been used in conventional fast reactor design activities. The equilibrium cycle method provides an efficient approach for modeling reactor system, compared to the more traditional non-equilibrium cycle fuel management calculation approach. Recently, the equilibrium analysis method has been utilized for designing Accelerator Transmutation of Waste (ATW)[2,3,4] cores, in which a scattered-reloading fuel management scheme is used. Compared with the conventional fast reactors, the ATW core is significantly different in several aspects since its main mission is to incinerate the transuranic (TRU) fuels. The high burnup non-fertile fuel has large variations in composition and reactivity during its lifetime. Furthermore, a relatively short cycle length is utilized in the ATW design to limit the potentially large reactivity swing over a cycle, and consequently 7 or 8-batch fuel management is usually assumed for a high fuel burnup. The validity of the equilibrium analysis method for the ATW core, therefore, needed to be verified. The main objective of this paper is to assess the validity of the equilibrium analysis method for a Na-cooled ATW core[4], which is an alternative core design of the ATW system under development.},
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