Browsing Engineering by Subject "Reactor grade plutonium"
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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 ... -
The influence of thorium on the temperature reactivity coefficient in a 400 MWth pebble bed high temperature plutonium incinerator reactor
(2012)Social and environmental justice for a growing and developing global population requires significant increases in energy use. A possible means of contributing to this energy increase is to incinerate plutonium from spent ...