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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2018 Consideration is given to the possibility to use changes in buoyancy as a negative reactivity feedback mechanism during temperature transients in heavy liquid metal fast reactors.
Francisco J. Arias
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Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor Annular UN Fuel Design and Development of Performance Analysis Program
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2021 A kind of annular uranium nitride (UN) fuel suitable for lead-cooled fast reactor applications has been designed in this study. The design is directly targeting two main issues of UN fuel: severe swelling and thermal decomposition of UN fuel at high ...
He Yuan +14 more
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Natural Science ReviewIn 1960, the world’s first pulsed fast nuclear reactor (IBR) was created at JINR. The second-generation IBR-2 reactor has been in operation since 1984. An analysis of the distinctive characteristics of the IBR-type reactors is presented, the main one of
V. L. Aksenov +3 more
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Development status of small modular fast reactors
International Journal of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design and TechnologySmall modular reactors (SMRs) offer significant prospects for widespread application due to their compact size, modularity, low cost and short construction period, rapid deployment capability, ease of assembly and transportation.
Pengrui Qiao +3 more
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Thermal Energetic Reactor with High Reproduction of Fission Materials
Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations, 2012 Existing thermal reactors are energy production scale limited because of low portion of raw uranium usage. Fast reactors are limited by reprocessing need of huge mass of raw uranium at the initial stage of development.
Vladimir M. Kotov
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Evolution of the CYCLE code for the system analysis of the nuclear fuel cycle
Nuclear Energy and Technology, 2016 The CYCLE code is intended to simulate mathematically the operation of a nuclear power system (NPS) with thermal and fast reactors in an open or closed nuclear fuel cycle, to develop scenarios of efficient nuclear power evolution in Russia and to analyze
A.G. Kalashnikov +4 more
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Reducing Irradiation Damage in a Long-Life Fast Reactor with Spectral Softening
Energies, 2018 Long-life fast reactors receive considerable attention for their potential of using uranium efficiently, and because they can operate for extended periods without refueling.
Andrew G. Osborne, Mark R. Deinert
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Risk-informed design optimization method and application in a lead-based research reactor
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2023 Risk-informed approach has been widely applied in the safety design, regulation, and operation of nuclear reactors. It has been commonly accepted that risk-informed design optimization should be used in the innovative reactor designs to make nuclear ...
Jiaqun Wang +5 more
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Operational Experiences of Fast Neutron Source Reactor “YAYOI” as Pulsed Fast Reactor
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 1981 University of Tokyo research reactor “YAYOI” is intended to be operated as a dynamic fast neutron source reactor as well as a stationary one. It is equipped with reactivity adding devices with both slow and quick action, and a LINAC PNS (Pulsed Neutron Source) to be operated with the devices mentioned above.
WAKABAYASHI, Hiroaki +3 more
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Breed-and-burn fuel cycle in molten salt reactors
EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies, 2019 The operation of a reactor on an open but self-sustainable cycle without actinide separation is known as breed-and-burn. It has mostly been envisioned for use in solid-fueled fast-spectrum reactors such as sodium-cooled fast reactors.
Hombourger Boris +2 more
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