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Type: Artigo de Periódico
Title: TRISO fuel thermal simulations in the LS-VHTR
Authors: Mario Cerrogrande Ramos
Maria Elizabeth Scari
Antonella Lombardi Costa
Claubia Pereira Bezerra Lima
Maria Auxiliadora Fortini Veloso
Abstract: The liquid-salt-cooled very high-temperature reactor (LS-VHTR) is a reactor that presents very good characteristics in terms of energy production and safety aspects. It uses as fuel the TRISO particles immersed in a graphite matrix with a cylindrical shape called fuel compact, as moderator graphite and as coolant liquid salt Li2BeF4 called Flibe. This work evaluates the thermal hydraulic performance of the heat removal system and the reactor core by performing different simplifications to represent the reactor core and the fuel compact under steady-state conditions, starting the modeling from a single fuel element, until complete the studies with the entire core model developed in the RELAP5-3D code. Two models were considered for representation of the fuel compact, homogeneous and non-homogeneous models, as well as different geometries of the heat structures was considered. The aim to develop several models was to compare the thermal hydraulic characteristics resulting from the construction of a more economical and less discretized model with much more refined models that can lead to more complexes analyzes to representing TRISO effect particles in the fuel compact. The different results found, mainly, for the core temperature distributions are presented and discussed.
Subject: Energia nuclear
language: eng
metadata.dc.publisher.country: Brasil
Publisher: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher Initials: UFMG
metadata.dc.publisher.department: ENG - DEPARTAMENTO DE ENGENHARIA NUCLEAR
Rights: Acesso Aberto
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: https://doi.org/10.15392/bjrs.v7i2B.648
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/42546
Issue Date: Jun-2019
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://www.bjrs.org.br/revista/index.php/REVISTA/article/view/648
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Brazilian Journal of Radiation Sciences
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