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Lightbridge to test uranium-zirconium fuel alloy in INL’s ATR
Lightbridge Corporation has fabricated samples of nuclear fuel materials made of an enriched uranium-zirconium alloy, matching the composition of the alloy that the company intends to use for its future commercial Lightbridge Fuel product. The fuel is designed to improve the performance, safety, and proliferation resistance of nuclear reactors, according to the company. The enriched coupon samples will now be placed into capsules for irradiation testing in Idaho National Laboratory’s Advanced Test Reactor.
Saam Yasseri, Farzad Rahnema
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 176 | Number 3 | March 2014 | Pages 292-311
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE13-9
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this paper, a new spatial homogenization method in transport theory is developed that reproduces the heterogeneous solution by using conventional flux-weighted homogenized cross sections. By introducing an additional source term via an auxiliary cross section, the resulting homogeneous transport equation becomes consistent with the heterogeneous equation, enabling easy implementation into existing solution methods/codes. This new method utilizes on-the-fly rehomogenization, performed at the assembly level, to correct for the effect of core environment on the homogenized cross sections. The method is derived in general geometry and continuous energy and implemented and tested in fine-group one-dimensional slab geometries typical of boiling water reactor and gas-cooled reactor cores. The test problems include two single-assembly and four-core configurations.