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Ishitsuka, Etsuo; Mitsui, Wataru*; Yamamoto, Yudai*; Nakagawa, Kyoichi*; Ho, H. Q.; Ishii, Toshiaki; Hamamoto, Shimpei; Nagasumi, Satoru; Takamatsu, Kuniyoshi; Kenzhina, I.*; et al.
JAEA-Technology 2021-016, 16 Pages, 2021/09
As a summer holiday practical training 2020, the feasibility study for nuclear design of a nuclear battery using HTTR core was carried out, and the downsizing of reactor core were studied by the MVP-BURN. As a result, it is clear that a 1.6 m radius reactor core, containing 54 (183 layers) fuel blocks with 20% enrichment of U, and BeO neutron reflector, could operate continuously for 30 years with thermal power of 5 MW. Number of fuel blocks of this compact core is 36% of the HTTR core. As a next step, the further downsizing of core by changing materials of the fuel block will be studied.
Watari, Shingo*; Kitayama, Ayami; Mitsui, Seiichiro; Taniguchi, Naoki; Kimura, Wataru*; Kajiyama, Hiroshi*
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The application of pure copper is being considered for the purpose of extending the life-time of disposal canisters in the direct disposal of spent fuel. Pure copper generally shows little corrosion development in aqueous solution environments with low oxygen concentrations due to its thermodynamic stability, but pure copper loses thermodynamic stability and corrosion develops depending on the sulfides conditions. In this study, immersion tests and U-bend tests were conducted to understand the corrosion progress behavior and stress corrosion cracking behavior of pure copper under the condition of sparging gas with various hydrogen sulfide concentrations to simulate the disposal environment where sulfide exists.