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DOE issues RFQ for clean-energy projects at WIPP
The Department of Energy has issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for interested parties that are looking to establish carbon pollution–free electricity (CFE) projects at its Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in New Mexico.
Xiang Wang (Harbin Eng Univ), Chunyu Liu, Rafael Macián-Juan (Technical Univ of Munich)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 460-468
The Dual Fluid Reactor is a molten salt fast reactor developed by IFK (Institut fuer Festkoerper-Kernphysik) based on the Gen-IV Molten-Salt Reactor (MSR) and the Liquid-Metal Cooled Reactor (SFR, LFR) concepts. This analysis report focuses on the comparison between previ-ous coupled calculations of the system with the default fuel salt of U-Pu mixture and new one with a transurani-um (TRU) fuel salt option. An approach to the dynamics and stability analysis of the DFR by using the well-developed linear method with their improved modifica-tions is proposed. The coupled one-dimensional neutron-ics and thermal-hydraulic model will be established with this method. With this model the steady state and the dy-namics analysis of the system under various operational conditions are presented. The stability of the system will be also analyzed with the results in the parametric studies. The results are compared with Molten Salt Breeder Reac-tor (MSBR) and Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR), which can be decisive for the future application of the DFR.
