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The purpose of this work is to study the feasibility of the Thorium/Uranium fuel cycle in heterogeneous Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR) core design. This paper focuses on the neutronic and burn-up analysis of the Thorium/Uranium fuel using the computer codes MCNPX and WIMS. The design is based on the Whole Assembly Seed and Blanket (WASB) concept, in which the individual seed (Uranium) and blanket (Thorium-Uranium) units occupy one full-size PWR assembly in a checkerboard core configuration. The results of the present models were compared with the solution of benchmark problems and satisfactory agreement was found.
From B. Foad | H. Mansour | M. Aziz
(Received 04.04.2010)
Appeared in Kerntechnik 2010/05, Page 271-276
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