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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"fast breeder reactor"”.
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Ssessment methodology for proliferation resistant fast breeder reactor
Due to perceived proliferation risks, current US fast reactor designs have avoided the use of uranium blankets. While reducing the amount of plutonium produced, this omission also restrains the reactor design space and has several disadvantages over blanketed cores. This study investigated many …
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Thermal Performance Study of Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor Insulations
Three types of metallic thermal insulations were investigated analytically and experimentally. These were multilayer reflective plates, multilayer honeycomb composite and multilayer screen insulation. Each of these insulations was subjected to evacuated and non-evacuated conditions where thermal …
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The economics of fuel depletion in fast breeder reactor blankets.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Nuclear Engineering. Thesis. 1973. Ph.D.
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Evaluation of a gas-cooled fast breeder reactor for ship propulsion.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Nuclear Engineering. Thesis. 1972. Nucl.E.
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An accident probability analysis and design evaluation of the gas-cooled fast breeder reactor demonstration plant
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Nuclear Engineering.
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Correlations for the Rise Rate of the Hot-Cold Interface in a Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor
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A Simple Computational Model for the Prediction of Fuel Pin Failure During A Transient-Overpower Accident
… model is developed and incorporated into a fast-running computer program. The model is designed to predict irradiated fuel-pin cladding rupture during a hypothetical transient-overpower (TOP) accident in a liquid metal fast breeder reactor. The principal failure mechanisms of fuel-cladding …
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Sicherheitsanalyse zur Auslegung eines Core-Catchers für einen heliumgekühlten schnellen Brüter
… in which the core of a 875 MWth. helium cooled fast breeder reactor is totally molten-down in a hypothetical severe accident. A “core catcher concept” with a sacrificial steel-bed is suggested which should encapsulate the core melt in a safe way. The theoretical backgrounds of the heat transfer …
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Nuclear fission and social fusion: the impact of the Dounreay Experimental Research Establishment on Caithness, 1953-1966
… Caithness was now at the heart of Britain’s fast breeder reactor development: in assessing this, this thesis alters the understanding of what could be achieved in an area considered ‘remote’ in the mid-twentieth century. It prioritises the local consequences of a vast project which is …
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Partial singular integro-differential equations models for dryout in boilers
… in steam generating pipes of a liquid metal fast breeder reactor is proposed. The model is based on thin-layer lubrication theory and thin aerofoil theory. The exchange of mass between the vapour core and the liquid film due to evaporation of the liquid film is accounted for in the model. The …
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Spent Nuclear Fuel Self-Induced XRF to Predict Pu to U Content
… the Pu peak has only been measured for fast breeder reactor fuel (~40 percent Pu). To understand the physics of the measurements, several modern physics simulations were conducted to determine the fuel isotopics, the sources of XRF in the spent fuel, and the sources of Compton continuum. …
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Development of thermodynamic cycles for sodium-cooled-fast reactors.
… level of 40-62%. As there are six GEN-IV nuclear-reactor concepts and the performance of these reactors-concepts depends on their design, it is reasonable to start with all GEN-IV reactor concepts and investigate the coolants and their characteristics in these concepts. For this objective, main …