High-temperature gas reactors rely on TRIstructural-ISOtropic (TRISO) fuel for enhanced fission product retention. Accurate characterization would improve monitoring of efficient usage and accountability. We developed a new neutron multiplicity counter (NMC) based boron coated straw (BCS) detectors used it in coincidence mode 235U assay TRISO fuel. In this work, we demonstrate that high-efficie...

In light water commercial reactors, extensive change of grain structure was found at high burnup ceramic fuels. The mechanism is driven by bombardment of fission energy fragments and studies were conducted by combining accelerator based experiments and computer science. Specimen of CeO2 was used as simulation material of fuel ceramics. With swift heavy ion (Xe) irradiation on CeO2, with 210 MeV...

Molten Salt Reactors are Gen-IV reactors that use liquid fuel. Fluid fuel allows continuous removal of fission gases as well batch reprocessing. With these control mechanisms the system can be sustained within desired operating temperature range and required power output. These methods rely on presence a chemical processing plant on-site adds complexity. This also creates risk unavailability du...

The Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor (ALMR) Actinide Recycle System is being developed in the United States for application early in the 21st century. The ALMR is a major part of this system and has missions beginning with near-term (10 years), medium term (15-20 years), and long-term (beyond 20 years) horizons. These missions use the same reactor design with modifications only to the reactor core...

The production and release of fission products in fuel rods the primary coolant have been simulated by kinetic model during normal operation a pressurized water reactor. typical ratio I-131/I-133 has theoretically estimated at equilibrium conditions for intact fuels failure with small or large defects, respectively. radiochemical data loops gathered compiled from thirty-six cycles operating CPR...

in this work, we had examined 7 different types of neutron sources -an isotropic point source, sending 14.1(mev) monoenergetic neutrons ,an spherical source with 30 micron radius sending 14.1 (mev) monoenergetic neutrons, and a 30 micron radius spherical source having gaussian fusion energy spectrum from a d-t fusion, with different bandwidths -1,10,50,100 and 1000 kev and investigated 5 differ...

nuclear cross sections that determine core multiplication strongly depend on core temperature (e.g., the doppler, moderator density effects etc). on the other hand, since this heat is generated by the neutron flux in the reactor core, the temperature distribution in the core will depend heavily on its neutronic behavior. fuel centerline temperature could be the limiting constraint on reactor po...

This paper attempts to summarize the actual problematic of reactor antineutrino energy spectra in the frame of fundamental and applied neutrino physics. Nuclear physics is an important ingredient of reactor antineutrino experiments. These experiments are motivated by neutrino oscillations, i.e. the measure of the 13 mixing angle. In 2011, after a new computation of the reactor antineutrino ener...

Tarapur Atomic Power Station is a twin unit Boiling Water Reactors. The rated initial capacity of each unit was for 210 MWe. Subsequently due to Secondary Steam Generator tube leak problem, the units were de-rated to 160 MWe in the year 198485. The station has completed 36 years of successful commercial operation. TAPS reactor fuel channels are made of Zircaloy -4, material. These are used alon...

An enhanced comprehension of the fission process is essential to our understanding nuclear dynamics as well other phenomena such stellar nucleosynthesis and reactor spectra that probe fundamental physics. In this paper authors take an important step toward role angular momentum in fission.