Maintaining the close-to-critical state of thorium fuel core of hybrid reactor operated under control by D-T fusion neutron flux
| Parent link: | Nuclear Engineering and Technology Vol. 53, iss. 6.— 2021.— [P. 1-11] |
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| Summary: | Title screen The results of full-scale numerical experiments of a hybrid thorium-containing fuel cell facility operating in a close-to-critical state due to a controlled source of fusion neutrons are discussed in this work. The facility under study was a complex consisting of two blocks. The first block was based on the concept of a high-temperature gas-cooled thorium reactor core. The second block was an axially symmetrical extended plasma generator of additional neutrons that was placed in the near-axial zone of the facility blanket. The calculated models of the blanket and the plasma generator of D-T neutrons created within the work allowed for research of the neutronic parameters of the facility in stationary and pulse-periodic operation modes. This research will make it possible to construct a safe facility and investigate the properties of thorium fuel, which can be continuously used in the epithermal spectrum of the considered hybrid fusion–fission reactor. |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2020.11.026 |
| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| KOHA link: | https://koha.lib.tpu.ru/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=664799 |