HETEROGENEOUS CORE DESIGNS AND THORIUM BASED FUELS FOR HEAVY WATER REACTORS

    公开(公告)号:US20180075930A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-15

    申请号:US15816952

    申请日:2017-11-17

    发明人: Blair P. Bromley

    IPC分类号: G21C1/02 G21C3/326 G21C3/62

    摘要: A channel type heterogeneous reactor core for a heavy water reactor for burnup of thorium based fuel is provided. The heterogeneous reactor core comprises at least one seed fuel channel region comprising seed fuel channels for receiving seed fuel bundles of thorium based fuel; and at least one blanket fuel channel region comprising blanket fuel channels for receiving blanket fuel bundles of thorium based fuel; wherein the seed fuel bundles have a higher percentage content of fissile fuel than the blanket fuel bundles. The seed fuel channel region and the blanket fuel channel region may be set out in a checkerboard pattern or an annular pattern within the heterogeneous reactor core. Fuel bundles for the core are also provided.

    Sustainable Modular Transmutation Reactor
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    发明申请
    Sustainable Modular Transmutation Reactor 审中-公开
    可持续模块化变压反应堆

    公开(公告)号:US20150098544A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-04-09

    申请号:US14050265

    申请日:2013-10-09

    申请人: Anatoly Blanovsky

    发明人: Anatoly Blanovsky

    IPC分类号: G21C1/28

    摘要: A light water reactor to safely convert depleted uranium into a fuel source that could be used as a sustainable source of energy for centuries. The reactor is a type of breed-burn reactor uniquely combined with a proliferation-resistant fuel cycle with no uranium enrichment and no plutonium isolation. It is comprised of a compact factory-produced fast region and a thermal region that produces about 95% of the core power and contains the passageways for transports of delayed-neutron emitters to the fast region, where they can provide additional neutrons (source-based mode) or all the necessary excitation without an external neutron source (self-regulating mode). A second embodiment of the invention is a small unit driven by a neutron source with beam recycling for propulsion, electrical power or radioisotope production. It could also serve as a demonstration facility for the transmutation reactor with fission-fusion fuel.

    摘要翻译: 一个轻水反应堆,将贫化铀安全地转化为燃料源,可以作为数百年来可持续的能源。 该反应器是一种独特地结合具有无铀富集和无钚分离的耐扩散燃料循环的焚烧炉。 它由一个紧凑的工厂生产的快速区域和一个热区域组成,产生大约95%的核心功率,并且包含用于将延迟中子发射器运输到快速区域的通道,在那里它们可以提供额外的中子 模式)或没有外部中子源的所有必要激励(自调节模式)。 本发明的第二实施例是由用于推进,电力或放射性同位素生产的具有光束再循环的中子源驱动的小单元。 它也可以作为具有裂变融合燃料的变形反应堆的示范设施。