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Fuel cycle analysis of Advanced Burner Reactor with breed-and-burn thorium blanket

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal 01 Feb 2018 United States Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Annals of Nuclear Energy, volume 112, pages 383-394 (issn: 0306-4549,

Authors: Guanheng Zhang; Massimiliano Fratoni; Ehud Greenspan;

doi: 10.1016/j.anucene.2017.10.016

Fuel cycle analysis of Advanced Burner Reactor with breed-and-burn thorium blanket

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Abstract

Abstract The Seed-and-Blanket (SB it is few percent higher than that of the 2-stage PWR-ABR system. Approximately 7% of the thorium fed to the blanket is converted into energy, which makes the thorium fuel utilization approximately 12 times the utilization of natural uranium in PWRs. A comprehensive fuel cycle evaluation performed with the methodology developed by the recent U.S Department of Energy’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation and Screening campaign concludes that the PWR-S&B system has similar fuel cycle performance characteristics as the PWR-ABR system. The S&B concept may potentially feature improved economics and resource utilization relative to the ABR.

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United States

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University of California System
United States
University of California, Berkeley
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Keywords

Fuel cycle analysis, Energy, 600, Thorium fuel, Other Physical Sciences, Affordable and Clean Energy, Interdisciplinary Engineering, Breed-and-Burn concept, Sodium-cooled fast reactor

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