Self-Sustaining Thorium Boiling Water Reactors

A thorium-fueled water-cooled reactor core design approach that features a radially uniform composition of fuel rods in stationary fuel assembly and is fuel-self-sustaining is described. This core design concept is similar to the Reduced moderation Boiling Water Reactor (RBWR) proposed by Hitachi to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ganda, Francesco, Arias, Francisco J., Vujic, Jasmina, Greenspan, Ehud
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MDPI AG 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88111