Nuclear Engineering and Technology

  • 제54권8호
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  • Pages.3106-3116
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  • 2022
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  • 1738-5733(pISSN)
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  • 2234-358X(eISSN)
한국원자력학회 (Korean Nuclear Society)
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Burnable poison optimized on a long-life, annular HTGR core

  • Sambuu, Odmaa (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National University of Mongolia) ;
  • Terbish, Jamiyansuren (Nuclear Research Center, National University of Mongolia)
  • 투고 : 2021.12.01
  • 심사 : 2022.03.18
  • 발행 : 2022.08.25
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The present work presents analysis results of the core design optimizations for an annular, prismatic High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) with passive decay-heat removal features. Its thermal power is 100 MWt and the operating temperature is 850 ℃ (1123 K). The neutronic calculations are done for the core with heterogeneous distribution of fuel and burnable poison particles (BPPs) to flatten the reactivity swing and power peaking factor (PPF) during the reactor operation as well as for control rod (CR) insertion into the core to restrain a small excess reactivity less than 1$. The next step of the study is done for evaluation of core reactivity coefficient of temperature.

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This work was done within the framework of the "Study on very high temperature reactor" project supported by the Asia Research Center, National University of Mongolia, Mongolia and Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, South Korea. We thank you for performing all calculations on the MINATO cluster server computers at the Nuclear Research Center, National University of Mongolia.

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