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Design studies of a low sodium void reactivity core able to accommodate degraded TRU fuel

Kawashima, Katsuyuki; Sugino, Kazuteru; Oki, Shigeo ; Okubo, Tsutomu

Although the sodium void reactivity is limited up to 6 dollars in the current JSFR design, it should be significant to perform design studies of the low sodium void reactivity core besides the reference design, to increase the design margin considering any influence of the TRU fuel compositions. In this study, the BUMPY core is proposed as the low sodium void core concept, in which the partial-length fuels with upper sodium plenum are interspersed within the core, causing the steps in fuel length in the neighboring fuel assemblies. The void reactivity is considerably reduced due to the upward and lateral neutron leakage from the fuel region to the sodium plenum upon voiding. The BUMPY core is applied to the JSFR design. The calculated void reactivity of the BUMPY core is 2.5 dollars, which is considerably reduced from 5.3 dollars for the reference core. Moreover, the Doppler coefficient is almost the same as the reference core.

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