Full core LOCA safety analysis for a PWR containing high burnup fuel

Improved PWR Core Characteristics with Thorium-containing Fuel

Thorium is an element for possible use as nuclear fuel, because of the fertile property of Th-232, which could convert into U-233 after neutron capture and beta decays. However, thorium based fuels have not been successfully implemented, because of the high cost and the higher complexity compared with once-through uranium fuel. Therefore, the focus of this thesis is on thorium for use in tradit...

Detailed Analysis of Phase Space Effects in Fuel Burnup/depletion for Pwr Assembly & Full Core Models Using Large-scale Parallel Computation

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Determination of the Transuranic Elements Inventory in High Burnup Pwr Spent Fuel Samples by Alpha Spectrometry

Determination of transuranic elements such as U, Pu, Np, Am and Cm in spent nuclear fuels is of importance for a fuel characterization, evaluation of a burnup credit, and burnup determination of spent nuclear fuels. Additionally, the exact amount of the actinide elements, as the major elements of a source term, of the spent nuclear fuels is also used for a code verification that predicts the am...

Determination ofresearch reactor fuel burnup

characterisation of high-burnup LWr fueL rods through gamma tomography