TY - GEN
T1 - Conceptual design of a homogeneous foam core fast reactor
AU - Gould, Dan
AU - Reed, Richard
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American Nuclear Society. All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Open-cell foam nuclear fuel has been previously shown to allow very high power density reactors for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP). In previous work, heterogeneous, thermal reactor designs were proposed utilizing foam fuel. In this work, a homogeneous, fast design is explored using a uranium foam. Included is a scoping study for optimization of a homogeneous, fast reactor which minimizes the mass. The new design is compared to a previous NTP thermal reactor design. The fast reactor design is found to have a large reduction in complexity as well as mass as compared to the previous thermal reactor design.
AB - Open-cell foam nuclear fuel has been previously shown to allow very high power density reactors for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP). In previous work, heterogeneous, thermal reactor designs were proposed utilizing foam fuel. In this work, a homogeneous, fast design is explored using a uranium foam. Included is a scoping study for optimization of a homogeneous, fast reactor which minimizes the mass. The new design is compared to a previous NTP thermal reactor design. The fast reactor design is found to have a large reduction in complexity as well as mass as compared to the previous thermal reactor design.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85051938200
SN - 9781510859609
T3 - Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2018
SP - 122
EP - 124
BT - Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2018
PB - American Nuclear Society
T2 - Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2018
Y2 - 26 February 2018 through 1 March 2018
ER -