Open AccessAssumptions and Criteria for Performing a Feasability Study of the Conversion of the High Flux Isotope Reactor Core to Use Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel
Author(s) -
III Primm R.T.,
R. Ellis,
Jess C Gehin,
D.L. Moses,
J.L. Binder,
Ned Xoubi
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/890007
Subject(s) - uranium , enriched uranium , nuclear engineering , flux (metallurgy) , nuclear reactor core , core (optical fiber) , scope (computer science) , thermal hydraulics , plutonium , actinide , waste management , environmental science , computer science , engineering , nuclear chemistry , nuclear physics , materials science , chemistry , physics , metallurgy , thermodynamics , heat transfer , telecommunications , programming language
A computational study will be initiated during fiscal year 2006 to examine the feasibility of converting the High Flux Isotope Reactor from highly enriched uranium fuel to low-enriched uranium. The study will be limited to steady-state, nominal operation, reactor physics and thermal-hydraulic analyses of a uranium-molybdenum alloy that would be substituted for the current fuel powder--U{sub 3}O{sub 8} mixed with aluminum. The purposes of this document are to (1) define the scope of studies to be conducted, (2) define the methodologies to be used to conduct the studies, (3) define the assumptions that serve as input to the methodologies, (4) provide an efficient means for communication with the Department of Energy and American research reactor operators, and (5) expedite review and commentary by those parties
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