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Breed-and-burn fuel cycle in molten salt reactors

Hombourger, Boris  
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Krepel, Jiri
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Pautz, Andreas  
November 15, 2019
EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies

The operation of a reactor on an open but self-sustainable cycle without actinide separation is known as breed-and-burn. It has mostly been envisioned for use in solid-fueled fast-spectrum reactors such as sodium-cooled fast reactors. In this paper the applicability of breed-and-burn to molten salt reactors is investigated first on a cell level using a modified neutron excess method. Several candidate fuel salts are selected and their performance in a conceptual three-dimensional reactor is investigated. Chloride-fueled single-fluid breed-and-burn molten salt reactors using enriched chlorine are shown to be feasible from a neutronics and fuel cycle point of view at the cost of large fuel inventories.

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DOI
10.1051/epjn/2019026
Web of Science ID

WOS:000499704400002

Author(s)
Hombourger, Boris  
Krepel, Jiri
Pautz, Andreas  
Date Issued

2019-11-15

Publisher

EDP Sciences

Published in
EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies
Volume

5

Start page

15

Subjects

Nuclear Science & Technology

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This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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