ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABLE THORIUM FUEL UTILIZATION IN MOLTEN SALT REACTORS STARTING FROM ENRICHED URANIUM
文献类型：会议论文
| 作者 | Cui, DY; Cai, XZ; Chen, JG; Yu, CG |
| 出版日期 | 2017 |
| 会议日期 | JUL 02-06, 2017 |
| 会议地点 | Shanghai, PEOPLES R CHINA |
| 关键词 | CYCLE |
| 期号 | — |
| 英文摘要 | Molten salt reactor (MSR), as one of the six systems selected by the Generation IV International Forum (GIF) for future advantaged reactors research and development (R&D), has excellent performances such as high inherent safety, desirable breeding capacity, low radioactive waste production, flexible fuel cycle and non-proliferation. Meanwhile, thorium, as an appealing alternative nuclear fuel to uranium, is more abundant than uranium in the earth's crust. Realization of thorium fuel cycle in MSRs will greatly contribute to sustainable energy supply for global development. The objective of this paper is to analyze and evaluate thorium fuel utilization in a program in which MSRs are expected to be developed step by step. The program can be described as follows: 1 The first stage is a converter reactor fueled with low enriched uranium. With limited processing based on current chemical partitioning technology and fuel-feeding techniques in the generation-I MSR; 2 The second stage is a U-233 production reactor. By using the enriched uranium, it can produce U-233 which does not exist in nature; 3 The third stage is a thorium breeding reactor. It is a breeder reactor with Th/U-233 fuel cycle, and sustainable thorium utilization for energy production is expected to be eventually realized. By employing an in-house developed tool based on SCALE6.1, the performance of MSR fueled with low enriched uranium is firstly assessed. It is found that MSR is attractive regarding conversion ratio when compared with light water reactors. Then we illustrate the feasibility of U-233 production in MSR. Enriched uranium with two enrichments are used as driver fuels to start MSR and produce U-233. The results show that U-233 production can be achieved and the double time is about 79.1 years for 20% enriched uranium and 28.3 years for 60% enriched uranium. Finally, the performance of MSR based on pure Th/U-233 fuel cycle is evaluated. It is found that breeding fissile material is possible in MSR and the breeding ratio is desirable (1.049). Comparison of the three-stage MSRs is also conducted and the results indicate that the resource utilization efficiency is much higher in stage-Ill than that in the first two stages and much less minor actinides is produced in MSR operating on Th/U-233 fuel cycle than that in traditional light water reactor. |
| 会议录 | PROCEEDINGS OF THE 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR ENGINEERING, 2017, VOL 5
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| 文献子类 | 会议论文 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| ISBN号 | 978-0-7918-5783-0 |
| 源URL | [http://ir.sinap.ac.cn/handle/331007/31919]  |
| 专题 | 上海应用物理研究所_中科院上海应用物理研究所2011-2017年 |
| 作者单位 | 1.Acad Sci, Shanghai Inst Appl Phys, Shanghai 201800, Peoples R China 2.CAS Innovat Acad TMSR Energy Syst, Shanghai 201800, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Cui, DY,Cai, XZ,Chen, JG,et al. ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABLE THORIUM FUEL UTILIZATION IN MOLTEN SALT REACTORS STARTING FROM ENRICHED URANIUM[C]. 见:. Shanghai, PEOPLES R CHINA. JUL 02-06, 2017. |
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来源：上海应用物理研究所
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