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Preliminary conceptual design of a small high-flux multi-purpose LBE cooled fast reactor

  • Xiong, Yangbin (School of Electric Power, South China University of Technology) ;
  • Duan, Chengjie (China Nuclear Power Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd) ;
  • Zeng, Qin (School of Electric Power, South China University of Technology) ;
  • Ding, Peng (China Nuclear Power Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd) ;
  • Song, Juqing (School of Mechanical Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology) ;
  • Zhou, Junjie (School of Electric Power, South China University of Technology) ;
  • Xu, Jinggang (School of Electric Power, South China University of Technology) ;
  • Yang, Jingchen (School of Electric Power, South China University of Technology) ;
  • Li, Zhifeng (China Nuclear Power Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd)
  • Received : 2021.11.18
  • Accepted : 2022.03.02
  • Published : 2022.08.25
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Abstract

The design concept of a Small High-flux Multipurpose LBE(Lead Bismuth Eutectic) cooled Fast Reactor (SHMLFR) was proposed in the paper. The primary cooling system of the reactor is forced circulation, and the fuel element form is arc-plate loaded high enrichment MOX fuel. The core is cylindrical with a flux trap set in the center of the core, which can be used as an irradiation channel. According to the requirements of the core physical design, a series of physical design criteria and constraints were given, and the steady and transient parameters of the reactor were calculated and analyzed. Regarding the thermal and hydraulic phenomena of the reactor, a simplified model was used to conduct a preliminary analysis of the fuel plates at special positions, and the temperature field distribution of the fuel plate with the highest power density under different coolant flow rates was simulated. The results show that the various parameters of SHMLFR meet the requirements and design criteria of the physical design of the core and the thermal design of the reactor. This implies that the conceptual design of SHMLFR is feasible.

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This work is supported by Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (Grant No. 2019A1515110261 and 202010561019).

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