ORNL-5388 - the Molten Salt Energy Technologies Web Site
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4-20<br />
Table 4.1-5. Fuel Utilization Characteristics for BWRs Under Various Fuel Cycle Options'<br />
Separative Work<br />
Case Fuel Type<br />
Initial<br />
Fissile<br />
Inventory<br />
(kg/GWe)<br />
Fissile<br />
Charge<br />
(kg/G%yrJ<br />
Equilibrium Cycle<br />
Fissile<br />
Discharge Burnup<br />
(kg/GWe-yr) (MWO/kg HM)<br />
U30s Requirement<br />
(ST/GWe 1<br />
30-yr<br />
Initial Total'<br />
Requirement<br />
(10' kg SWU/GWe)<br />
30-yr<br />
Initial Total'<br />
A<br />
8<br />
8'<br />
B"<br />
D<br />
E<br />
F<br />
Gh<br />
H<br />
LEU. no recycle 220OC<br />
Dispersible Resource-Based Fuels<br />
MEU/Th. no recycle' 1132 244 233U 31.6<br />
428 23sU<br />
53 Puf<br />
LEU/Th mixed lattice, - 854 23511 2:; z;<br />
L<br />
28.7<br />
no recyclee<br />
LEU/HEU/Th mixed lattice, -<br />
no recyclee<br />
LEU/MEU/Th mixed<br />
lattice, self-generated<br />
U recyclee<br />
Denatured 233U02/Th02, -<br />
U recycle (exogeneous -<br />
2S3U makeup)e<br />
799 23% 235 23% 28.4 496C'd 6051d 235C'd 3493'<br />
150 Puf<br />
138 Puf<br />
917 235U 125 233U 30.0<br />
277 23sU<br />
92 Puf<br />
147 233U 152 233U 30.5<br />
742 235U 245 23sU<br />
98 Puf<br />
Dispersible Denatured Fuel<br />
770 233U 452 *))U 31.6<br />
15 235U 17 23sU<br />
55 Puf<br />
<strong>Energy</strong>-Center-Constrained Fuels<br />
LEU, recycle of U +<br />
self-generated Pu 2200' 28.4<br />
PuO2/UO2. Pu recycle - 71 23511<br />
1178 Puf<br />
38 2%<br />
808 puf<br />
27.7<br />
Pu02/Th02. PU recyclee - 1705 Puf 275 233U<br />
954 Puf<br />
29.8<br />
aAll cases assume 0.2 w/o tails and 75% capacity. factor; blank columns included to show no data corresponding to that given for<br />
PWRs (Table 4.1-1) are available.<br />
bNo credit taken for end-of-reactor-life fissile inventory.<br />
'Initial cycle is 1.47 yr in length at 75% capacity factor.<br />
dFrom ref. 9. Based on three-enrichment-zone initial core, axial blankets and improved refueling patterns which are currently<br />
being retrofitted into many BWRs. 30-yr Up, and SWU requirements supplied to INFCE for a reference BWR not employing <strong>the</strong>se<br />
improvements are 6443 ST UpalGWe and 3887 x 103 SWU/GWe respectively.<br />
'Analyses performed for equilibrium cycle only.<br />
'Approximated from equilibrium cycle requirements.<br />
c<br />
gFrom ref. 8.<br />
'From ref. 10; adjusted from 80% capacity factor to 75%.<br />
$ails uranium used for plutonium diluent.<br />
Case B' is a perturbation to <strong>the</strong> reference U02 BWR assembly design in that <strong>the</strong> four<br />
U02 corner pins in each fuel assembly are replaced with four pure Tho2 pins. The remaining<br />
U02 pins are adjusted in enrichment to obtain a desirable local power distribution and to<br />
achieve reactivity lifetime.<br />
ments by only 2% relative to <strong>the</strong> reference design.<br />
removing <strong>the</strong> Tho2 corner pins from <strong>the</strong> spent fuel assemblies, reassembling <strong>the</strong>m into new<br />
assemblies, and reinserting <strong>the</strong>m into <strong>the</strong> reactor.<br />
0<br />
496'<br />
i<br />
0<br />
868d<br />
6201<br />
6852<br />
55035<br />
0<br />
38699<br />
i<br />
0<br />
0<br />
235'<br />
i<br />
0<br />
7764<br />
3836<br />
5100f<br />
3895f<br />
0<br />
19809<br />
In <strong>the</strong> once-through mode this design increases U308 require-<br />
achieve increased burnups (and also increased 233U production) without reprocessing.<br />
U308 requirements for this scheme (i.e., re-use of <strong>the</strong> Tho2 rods coupled with UO:! stowaway)<br />
are approximately 1.3% higher than for <strong>the</strong> reference U02 cycle.8<br />
This option could be extended by<br />
This would permit <strong>the</strong> Tho2 pins to<br />
i<br />
0<br />
L<br />
1: