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Extension of fuel burnup in light water reactors by using a strict in-out refueling scheme

Creator:

Yen, Julian Yu-liang

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To utilize energy resources as efficiently as possible has become a necessity today. The purpose of this study is to see how this can be done by extending burnup in a light water reactor. Specifically, an in-out refueling scheme might extract the maximum energy from nuclear fuel during its redidence...

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Dissertation

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from nuclear fuel during its redidence in the reactor. In principle, a reactor loading with minimum
Monte Carlo burnup analysis code development and application to an incore thermionic space nuclear power system

Creator:

Abdul-hamid, Shahab A.

Abstract:

Lattice bum-up calculations in thermal reactors are complicated by the necessity for use of transport theory to represent fuel rods, control rods, and burnable absorbers, by many time-dependent variables which must be considered in the analysis, and by geometric complexity which introduces time-dependent, spatial-spectral variations. Representation of lattice structure in...

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Masters Thesis

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theory is essential to accurately predict the nuclear reaction rates in the fuel rods, control rods, and