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Analysis of Th and U breeding in a heat pipe cooled traveling wave reactor
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2023 Introduction: Heat pipe cooled traveling wave reactor (HPTWR) is a newly proposed heat pipe reactor. The HPTWR can achieve the low enrichment of loaded fuel, small reactivity swing, and long-term continuous operation for the power supply of decentralized
Kunfeng Ma, Po Hu
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The Traveling Wave Reactor: Design and Development
Engineering, 2016 The traveling wave reactor (TWR) is a once-through reactor that uses in situ breeding to greatly reduce the need for enrichment and reprocessing. Breeding converts incoming subcritical reload fuel into new critical fuel, allowing a breed-burn wave to ...
John Gilleland +2 more
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Energies, 2011 Physical fundamentals of traveling wave reactor are considered. We show that the condition of existence of nuclear burning soliton-like wave in a neutron-multiplying medium is determined in general by two conditions.
Sergey I. Saulenko +11 more
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TERRAPOWER, LLC TRAVELING WAVE REACTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2013 Energy security is a topic of high importance to many countries throughout the world. Countries with access to vast energy supplies enjoy all of the economic and political benefits that come with controlling a highly sought after commodity.
PAVEL HEJZLAR +17 more
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Evaluation of the neutronic performance of a fast traveling wave reactor in the Th-U fuel cycle [PDF]
Nuclear Energy and Technology, 2020 The possibility for all of the uranium or thorium fuel to be used nearly in full is expected in traveling wave reactors. A traveling wave reactor core with a fast neutron spectrum in a thorium-uranium cycle has been numerically simulated.
Alina Ye. Pomysukhina +2 more
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Phenomenology of acoustic standing waves as applied to the VVER-1200 reactor plant [PDF]
Nuclear Energy and Technology, 2022 The insufficiently studied issues of acoustic standing waves (ASW) in the main circulation circuits of the VVER reactor plants are considered. For a long time no proper attention has been given to this phenomenon both by the researchers and NPP experts ...
Gennady V. Arkadov +3 more
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Fast protection scheme for flexible DC transmission line based on voltage traveling wave steepness
电力工程技术, 2023 Flexible DC technology has revolutionary significance in flexibly solving the problem of high proportion of new energy consumption. Due to the vulnerability of high-ratio power electronic equipment and the difficulty in extracting fault information ...
GAO Zhengchuang +3 more
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Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022 Discrimination of different DC faults near a converter end of a DC section consisting of a filter, a smoothing reactor, and a transmission line is not an easy task.
Aleena Swetapadma +6 more
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Nuclear Burning Wave Concept and Theoretical Approaches for its Description
East European Journal of Physics, 2020 After two major nuclear power plant accidents in Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima (2011), one of the main requirements for the nuclear power engineering is the safety of the nuclear reactors in operation, as well as new nuclear power plants of the fourth ...
Maksym S. Malovytsia +2 more
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Numerical analysis of the self-sustaining traveling wave of nuclear fission propagated by epithermal neutrons in uranium dicarbide medium [PDF]
Ядерна фізика та енергетикаThis study investigates the self-sustaining traveling wave of nuclear fission in a uranium dicarbide medium by numerically solving a system of partial differential equations.
M. R. Shcherbyna +4 more
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