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Goto, Minoru; Seki, Yasuyoshi; Fukaya, Yuji; Inaba, Yoshitomo; Ohashi, Hirofumi; Sato, Hiroyuki; Tachibana, Yukio
Proceedings of 6th International Topical Meeting on High Temperature Reactor Technology (HTR 2012) (USB Flash Drive), 10 Pages, 2012/10
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has started a conceptual design study of a small-sized High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) with 50 MW thermal power (HTR50S) to be deployed in developing countries in the 2020s. The nuclear design of the HTR50S is performed by upgrading that of a High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR), which is the Japanese HTGR with 30 MW thermal power. In the HTTR design, 12 kinds of fuel enrichment was used to optimize the power distribution. In the previous study of the HTR50S, we succeeded in reducing the number of the fuel enrichment to 3. The present study challenges the nuclear design for effective use of uranium by utilizing high burn-up fuel and axial fuel shuffling, in which a half of the loaded fuel elements is discharged from the core every 2 years and the remains are reloaded. The core burn-up calculations were performed and the nuclear characteristics were confirmed to satisfy the design requirement.
Goto, Minoru; Seki, Yasuyoshi; Inaba, Yoshitomo; Ohashi, Hirofumi; Sato, Hiroyuki; Fukaya, Yuji; Tachibana, Yukio
JAEA-Technology 2012-017, 29 Pages, 2012/06
JAEA-Technology-2012-017.pdf:1.87MB
Japan Atomic Energy Agency has started a conceptual design of a small-sized HTGR with 50 MW thermal power (HTR50S), which is a first-of-a-kind commercial or demonstration plant of a small-sized HTGR to be deployed in developing countries in the 2020s. The nuclear of the HTR50S was performed by upgrading the proven technology of High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) to reduce cost for the construction. In the nuclear design, reduce the number of fuel enrichment comparing with the HTTR is one of the important subject to be upgraded. The optimization of the power distribution in the core, which is required to suppress the maximum fuel temperature below the limitation, was completed successfully by using only three fuel enrichment and the number of fuel enrichment was reduced significantly compared with the HTTR.
Goto, Minoru; Seki, Yasuyoshi; Inaba, Yoshitomo; Ohashi, Hirofumi; Sato, Hiroyuki; Fukaya, Yuji; Tachibana, Yukio
Proceedings of 2012 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '12) (CD-ROM), p.341 - 348, 2012/06
Japan Atomic Energy Agency has started a conceptual design of a small-sized HTGR with 50 MW thermal power (HTR50S), which is a first-of-a-kind commercial or demonstration plant of a small-sized HTGR to be deployed in developing countries in the 2020s. The nuclear of the HTR50S was performed by upgrading the proven technology of High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) to reduce cost for the construction. In the nuclear design, reduce the number of fuel enrichment comparing with the HTTR is one of the important subject to be upgraded. The optimization of the power distribution in the core, which is required to suppress the maximum fuel temperature below the limitation, was completed successfully by using only three fuel enrichment and the number of fuel enrichment was reduced significantly compared with the HTTR.
Yasumoto, Takashi*; Goto, Minoru; Shimakawa, Satoshi; Nakagawa, Shigeaki; Seki, Yasuyoshi; Matsuura, Hideaki*; Nakao, Yasuyuki*
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Core calculation of the HTTR yielded overestimation of the excess reactivities to the experimental data, and this problem has not been resolved yet. It is one of the important issue to select nuclear data library, which was used for the core calculations, to obtain the calculation results with high accuracy. In the past, the effect of difference of nuclear data libraries on the HTTR core calculation results was evaluated using JENDL-3.3, ENDF/B-6.8 and JEFF-3.1. As a result, JENDL-3.3 yielded better excess reactivities than ENDF/B-6.8 and JEFF-3.1. In this study, the effect was reevaluated using the latest version of ENDF/B: ENDF/B-7.0 and the preliminary version of JENDL-4.
Goto, Minoru; Seki, Yasuyoshi; Inaba, Yoshitomo; Ohashi, Hirofumi; Sato, Hiroyuki; Fukaya, Yuji; Tachibana, Yukio
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Japan Atomic Energy Agency has started a conceptual design of a small-sized HTGR with 50 MW thermal power (HTR50S), which is a first-of-a-kind commercial or demonstration plant of a small-sized HTGR to be deployed in developing countries in the 2030s. The design policy of the HTR50S is to construct it without development of new technologies, which require additional demonstration tests, to suppress the construction cost and deploy it in 2030s. Accordingly, the nuclear design of the HTR50S was performed by upgrading the proven design technology of the High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR). In the nuclear design of the HTR50S, we challenged to increase the power density and decrease the number of the fuel enrichments compared with the HTTR. As a result, the nuclear design was completed successfully by increasing the power density by 1.4 times of the power density of the HTTR and reducing the number of the fuel enrichment to only three from twelve of the HTTR.