Influence of the Graphite’s Lifespan on the Design Value of Fuel Burnup in High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors

Autor: Artem Naymushin, Aleksey V. Golovatsky, Savva N. Savanyuk, Denis Fyodorovich Baybakov, Igor V. Shamanin, Vladimir Nikolaevich Nesterov
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Advanced Materials Research. 1084:313-316
ISSN: 1662-8985
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1084.313
Popis: This paper describes a method of determining the correlation of the exhausted graphite fuel blocks’ lifespan in high temperature gas-cooled reactors with the fuel burnup. The axial distribution of the local values of the exhausted lifespan of graphite fuel blocks was obtained. It is shown that for ensuring the compliance of the design value of the fuel burnup with graphite fuel blocks operability, it is necessary to reduce the average mixed temperature of the helium coolant leaving the reactor core and as well as reduce the time between nuclear fuel recharges.
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