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Work advances on X-energy’s TRISO fuel fabrication facility
Small modular reactor developer X-energy, together with its fuel-developing subsidiary TRISO-X, has selected Clark Construction Group to finish the building construction phase of its advanced nuclear fuel fabrication facility, known as TX-1, in Oak Ridge, Tenn. It will be the first of two Oak Ridge facilities built to manufacture the company’s TRISO fuel for use in its Xe-100 SMR. The initial deployment of the Xe-100 will be at Dow Chemical Company’s UCC Seadrift Operations manufacturing site on Texas’s Gulf Coast.
Burt A. Zolotar
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 31 | Number 2 | February 1968 | Pages 282-294
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A18240
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The one-mode stochastic nuclear reactor model has been proposed by Bell to study fluctuations in neutron populations. The purpose of this model is to allow consistent space and energy corrections to point reactor stochastic results. The model has been extended to also cover fluctuations in captures and fissions. A time-dependent, Monte Carlo computer program has been developed to simulate these fluctuations for a one-velocity bare reactor system and to estimate parameters of the probability distributions. It has been shown that the one-mode model for neutron populations and captures gives excellent agreement with the Monte Carlo results. Both showed a correction of about 50% to the magnitude of the variance predicted by basic point reactor equations. The fission probabilities required a more careful examination, but the Monte Carlo results could be predicted by approximate solutions to the exact stochastic equations. The influence of spatial effects on the properties of persisting and nonpersisting chains in supercritical systems has also been examined. The one-mode model provides important corrections.