The effect of reactor size on the breeding economics of LMFBR blankets
"February, 1975."
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Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, [1975]
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| author | Tagishi, Akinori Driscoll, Michael J. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/897242019-04-11T04:11:13Z The effect of reactor size on the breeding economics of LMFBR blankets Tagishi, Akinori Driscoll, Michael J. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Engineering United States. Energy Research and Development Administration United States. Department of Energy TK9008.M41 N96 no.168 Nuclear fuels -- Estimates Nuclear fuel elements Liquid metal cooled reactors Breeder reactors Fast reactors "February, 1975." Also issued as an Sc. D. thesis written by the first author and supervised by the second author, MIT Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1975 Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-346) The effect of reactor size on the neutronic and economic performance of LMFBR blankets driven by radially-power-flattened cores has been investigated using both simple models and state-of-the-art computer methods. Reactor power ratings in the range 250 to 3000 MWe were considered. Correlations for economic breakeven and optimum irradiation times and blanket thicknesses have been developed for batch-irradiated blankets. It is shown that at a given distance from the core-blanket interface the fissile buildup rate per unit volume remains very nearly constant in the radial blanket as (radially-power-flattened, constant-height) core size increases. As a consequence, annual revenue per blanket assembly, and breakeven and optimum irradiation times and optimum blanket dimensions, are the same for all reactor sizes. It is also shown that the peripheral core fissile enrichment, hence neutron leakage spectra, of the (radially-power-flattened, constant-height) cores remains essentially constant as core size increases. Coupled with the preceding observations, this insures that radial blanket breeding performance in demonstration-size LMFBR units will be a good measure of that in much larger commercial LMFBR's. U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration contract AT(ll-1)-2250 2014-09-16T23:35:10Z 2014-09-16T23:35:10Z 1975 Technical Report http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89724 857058519 MITNE ; no. 168 ERDA research and development report COO (Series) ; 2250-13 346 pages application/pdf Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, [1975] |
| spellingShingle | TK9008.M41 N96 no.168 Nuclear fuels -- Estimates Nuclear fuel elements Liquid metal cooled reactors Breeder reactors Fast reactors Tagishi, Akinori Driscoll, Michael J. The effect of reactor size on the breeding economics of LMFBR blankets |
| title | The effect of reactor size on the breeding economics of LMFBR blankets |
| title_full | The effect of reactor size on the breeding economics of LMFBR blankets |
| title_fullStr | The effect of reactor size on the breeding economics of LMFBR blankets |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effect of reactor size on the breeding economics of LMFBR blankets |
| title_short | The effect of reactor size on the breeding economics of LMFBR blankets |
| title_sort | effect of reactor size on the breeding economics of lmfbr blankets |
| topic | TK9008.M41 N96 no.168 Nuclear fuels -- Estimates Nuclear fuel elements Liquid metal cooled reactors Breeder reactors Fast reactors |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89724 |
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