Author: S. GanesanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capture
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Status of Thorium Cycle Nuclear Data Evaluations
Author: S. GanesanStatus of Thorium Cycle Nuclear Data Evaluations
Author: S. GanesanSTATUS OF THORIUM CYCLE NUCLEAR DATA EVALUATIONS: COMPARISON OF CROSS-SECTION LINE SHAPES OF JENDL-3 AND ENDF/B-VI FILES FOR Th-230, Th-232, Pa-231, Pa-233, U-232, U-233 AND U-234
Author: S. GanesanEvaluated Nuclear Data for Nuclides Within the Thorium-uranium Fuel Cycle
Author: International Atomic Energy AgencyPublisher:
ISBN: 9789201010100
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
The thorium based nuclear fuel cycle offers many advantages with respect to safety, reduced proliferation risk and waste management. However, the quality of nuclear data for the relevant materials is lower than for the comparable materials in uranium or mixed oxide (plutonium) fuel cycles. This publication presents the results of a coordinated research project aiming to improve the database of experimentally measured nuclear data of nuclides appearing in the thorium-uranium fuel cycle. It includes complex and comprehensive evaluated nuclear data files with a broad consensus on quality and validated performance based on benchmark test cases.
Thorium Energy for the World
Author: Jean-Pierre RevolPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319265423
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Thorium Energy Conference (ThEC13) gathered some of the world’s leading experts on thorium technologies to review the possibility of destroying nuclear waste in the short term, and replacing the uranium fuel cycle in nuclear systems with the thorium fuel cycle in the long term. The latter would provide abundant, reliable and safe energy with no CO2 production, no air pollution, and minimal waste production. The participants, representatives of 30 countries, included Carlo Rubbia, Nobel Prize Laureate in physics and inventor of the Energy Amplifier; Jack Steinberger, Nobel Prize Laureate in physics; Hans Blix, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN; Pascal Couchepin, former President of the Swiss Confederation; and Claude Haegi, President of the FEDRE, to name just a few. The ThEC13 proceedings are a source of reference on the use of thorium for energy generation. They offer detailed technical reviews of the status of thorium energy technologies, from basic R&D to industrial developments. They also describe how thorium can be used in critical reactors and in subcritical accelerator-driven systems (ADS), answering the important questions: – Why is thorium so attractive and what is the role of innovation, in particular in the nuclear energy domain? – What are the national and international R&D programs on thorium technologies and how are they progressing? ThEC13 was organized jointly by the international Thorium Energy Committee (iThEC), an association based in Geneva, and the International Thorium Energy Organisation (IThEO). It was held in the Globe of Science and Innovation at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland, in October 2013.
Nuclear Data Processing and Evaluation
Author: Mohammad A. ra'of A. ghani AlrwashdehPublisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783659596520
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
To meet the development needs of thorium-based nuclear energy systems for nuclear data evaluation, the aim of this study was to investigate the availability and accuracy of cross-section data for U-233 to perform calculations of the critical system for the thorium - uranium fuel cycle. By utilising the method of weighted least squares and using nonlinear regression with high-order polynomials to meet the growing demands of nuclear data, a computer programme FITWR was developed and applied to the experimental total cross-sections for MEV incident energy particles, e.g., neutrons and protons. The FITWR programme can handle variance and covariance data provided with experimental data and yield those statistical measures for evaluated data. Two evaluated data libraries are available, the U.S. data bank ENDF and the Japanese data bank JENDL. Pre-calculations were performed using the SAMMY code in conjunction with two fitting methods: the Bayes method, which is available through the SAMMY code, and the weighted least squares method with nonlinear regression.
Once-through Thorium Fuel Cycle Evaluation for TVA's Browns Ferry-3 Boiling Water Reactor
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This report documents benchmark evaluations to test thorium lattice predictive methods and neutron cross sections against available data and summarizes specific evaluations of the once-through thorium cycle when applied to the Browns Ferry-3 BWR. It was concluded that appreciable uncertainties in thorium cycle nuclear data cloud the ability to reliably predict the fuel cycle performance and that power reactor irradiations of ThO2 rods in BWRs are desirable to resolve uncertainties. Benchmark evaluations indicated that the ENDF/B-IV data used in the evaluations should cause an underprediction of U-233/ThO2 fuel reactivity, and, therefore, the results of the preliminary evaluations completed under the program should be conservative.
Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy
Author: Thomas James DolanPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0323993567
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy, Second Edition is a fully updated comprehensive reference on the latest advances in MSR research and technology. Building on the successful first edition, Tom Dolan and the team of experts have fully updated the content to reflect the impressive advances from the last 5 years, ensuring this book continues to be the go-to reference on the topic. This new edition covers progress made in MSR design, details innovative experiments, and includes molten salt data, corrosion studies and deployment plans. The successful case studies section of the first edition have been removed, expanded, and fully updated, and are now published in a companion title called Global Case Studies on Molten Salt Reactors. Readers will gain a deep understanding of the advantages and challenges of MSR development and thorium fuel use, as well as step-by-step guidance on the latest in MSR reactor design. Each chapter provides a clear introduction, covers technical issues and includes examples and conclusions, while promoting the sustainability benefits throughout. A fully updated comprehensive handbook on Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy, written by a team of global experts Covers MSR applications, technical issues, reactor types and reactor designs Includes 3 brand new chapters which reflect the latest advances in research and technology since the first edition published Presents case studies on molten salt reactors which aid in the transition to net zero by providing abundant clean, safe energy to complement wind and solar powe
A Review of the Current Status of Nuclear Data for Major and Minor Isotopes of Thorium Fuel Cycle
Author: S. GanesanA Review of French Studies on Thorium Cycle for HTR and MSR Including Nuclear Data Evaluation
Author: Centre d'études nucléaires de SaclayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description