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Feasibility Design Study of Long Life BWR with Natural Uranium/Thorium as Fuel Cycle Input

Author(s) -

Zaki Su’ud,

Rijal Kurniadi,

Rida SN Mahmudah,

Zuhair Zuhair

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

indonesian journal of physics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 0854-6878

DOI - 10.5614/itb.ijp.2009.20.1.4

Subject(s) - uranium , thorium fuel cycle , thorium , nuclear engineering , natural uranium , criticality , environmental science , fuel cycle , core (optical fiber) , nuclear reactor core , enriched uranium , depleted uranium , materials science , engineering , nuclear physics , physics , metallurgy , composite material

Feasibility design study of Long Life BWR with natural uranium/thorium as fuel cycle input has been performed. The reactor core is divided into 6 equal regions in radial direction. The fresh fuel is first loaded into the most outer region then shifted to the center of the core, and from there shifted to the nearby region in the outward direction. Nitride fuel is employed in the core to get better criticality and conversion/breeding ratio. The results show that uranium fuel combined with low moderating ratio environment is superior to make the system critical.

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