Browsing by Subject "Thorium fuel"
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A heterogeneous Thorium-based fuel design for a PWR aimed at increasing fuel cycle length
(2015)A new heterogeneous Thorium based fuel design has been proposed for Pressurised Water Reactors in order to increase fuel cycle lengths. This design incorporates ThO2 pellets which have been included between UO2 fuel pellets ... -
Increasing the fuel cycle length of a PWR by means of a homogeneous uranium, thorium and plutonium fuel design
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)In this study a new homogeneous fuel pellet was designed for a Pressurized Watercooled Reactor (PWR), aimed at increasing its fuel cycle length. The standard 4.5 wt. % Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) fuel pellet of the South ... -
Neutronic design of homogeneous thorium/uranium fuel for 24 month fuel cycles in the European pressurized reactor using MCNP6
(Elsevier, 2018)A new approach to designing thorium based fuels for a European pressurized reactor (EPR) core is introduced by considering a three dimensional full core MCNP6 model. Existing information on designing thorium/uranium fuel ...