Neutronic Analysis of LBE-Uranium Spallation Target Accelerator Driven System Loaded with Uranium Dioxide in TRISO Particles

• Authors: G. Bakir , S. Selçuklu , G. Genç , H. Yapici
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This study presents the neutronic performances of fissile breeding and energy production of a gas cooled accelerator-driven system with LBE-uranium dioxide (UO₂) spallation target. The accelerator-driven system is designed and optimized by considering various target materials, in terms of neutronic. Two different materials, LBE + natural UO₂ and LBE + 15% enrichment UO₂ are selected as target materials. The target zone is divided into two parts, one within the other; the outer part is pure LBE target part, and the inner part is UO₂ target part cooled with the helium gas. Tristructural-isotropic (TRISO)-coated fuel particles, containing UO₂ fuel, are embedded in a carbon matrix pebble with the packing fraction of a 29%, and the pebbles are placed in the UO₂ target part and in the fuel core with the packing fraction of a 60%. The fuel core is cooled with helium that is a high-temperature coolant. The target is bombarded with the continuous beams of a 1 GeV protons to produce high-flux neutrons that enter the fuel core. The fuel core is surrounded with a graphite reflector zone serving as both effective moderation and reflection of these neutrons. Furthermore, the whole system is enclosed by boron carbide, B₄C (shielding zone), to prevent the neutrons leakage out of the accelerator-driven system. The high-energy Monte Carlo code MCNPX along with the LA150 library is used for neutronic calculations. The numerical results bring out that the investigated accelerator-driven system has a high neutronic performance, from the energy production and fissile breeding points of view. Namely, it can be obtained over the thermal power of a 350 MW and produced over the fissile breeding of a 300 g/day.

Keywords

EN

28.20.-v; 28.20.Np; 28.65.+a; 29.20.dg; 29.85.Fj

Discipline

• 29.85.Fj: Data analysis
• 28.65.+a: Accelerator-driven transmutation of nuclear waste
• 28.20.Np: Neutron capture γ-rays
• 29.20.dg: Cyclotrons
• 28.20.-v: Neutron physics(see also 25.40.-h Nucleon-induced reactions and 25.85.Ec Neutron-induced fission)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 130
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 30-32

Dates

published

2016-07

Contributors

author

G. Bakir

• Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi, Enerji Sistemleri Mühendisliği Anabilimdal i, Sivas, Turkey

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S. Selçuklu

• Erciyes Üniversitesi, Enerji Sistemleri Mühendisliği Bölümü, Kayseri, Turkey

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G. Genç

• Erciyes Üniversitesi, Enerji Sistemleri Mühendisliği Bölümü, Kayseri, Turkey

author

H. Yapici

• Erciyes Üniversitesi, Enerji Sistemleri Mühendisliği Bölümü, Kayseri, Turkey

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.130.30