Conceptual Design of Minor Actinides Burner with an Accelerator - Driven Subcritical System ANL - 11 / 34 Nuclear Engineering Division
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................................................................................................... 1 2 SPALLATION NEUTRON SOURCE DESIGN ........................................... 3 3 SUBCRITICAL FISSION BLANKET DESIGN ........................................... 4 3.1 FISSION BLANKET NEUTRON MULTIPLICATION ................................................................ 4 3.2 FISSION BLANKET ENERGY MULTIPLICATION .................................................................. 5 3.3 INITIAL FUEL INVENTORY AND GEOMETRICAL SIZE OF FISSION BLANKET .......................... 5 4 FUEL BURNUP ANALYSIS ...................................................................... 6 4.1 AM-241 TRANSMUTATION ............................................................................................. 6 4.2 BURNUP SIMULATIONS: TEST CASE ............................................................................... 8 4.3 BURNUP SIMULATIONS: CASES I-III ................................................................................ 8 5 SUMMARY .............................................................................................. 11 REFERENCES .............................................................................................. 13 APPENDIX B: COMPUTER SCRIPT CODES .............................................. 37 B.1 PYTHON JOB SCRIPT TO CALCULATE FEED FACTOR F OF APPENDIX A ............................. 37 B.2 PYTHON JOB SCRIPT TO ADJUST FEED FACTOR F ........................................................... 45 B.3 SHELL SCRIPT TO RUN MCB5 CODE ............................................................................. 47
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