Title: A Method for Refueling Light Water Reactors with Natural Uranium
Abstract: Light water reactors can be refueled with natural uranium and plutonium. When the plutonium provides less than one-half of the fissions, the plutonium fissile inventory ratio will be greater than unity. Therefore, a self-sustained system is obtained. The burnup that can be obtained by this refueling method is ~4000 MWd/ton. A doubling of the fuel lifetime is obtained (~8000 MWd/ton) when the spectral shift control method is adopted.
Publication Year: 1979
Publication Date: 1979-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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