Advances in the Subcritical, Gas-Cooled, Fast Transmutation Reactor Concept

• DOI: 10.13182/nt07-a3857
• Publication Date: 2017-08-11T12:49:02Z
• Authors: W. M. Stacey; K. A. Boakye; S. K. Brashear; A. C. Bryson; K. A. Burns; E. J. Bruch; S. A. Chandler; O. M. Chen; S. S. Chiu; J.-P. Floyd; C. J. Fong; S. P. Hamilton; P. B. Johnson; S. M. Jones; M. Kato; B. A. MacLaren; R. P. Manger; B. L. Meriwether; C. Mitra; K. R. Riggs; B. H. Shrader; J. C. Schulz; C. M. Sommer; T. S. Sumner; J. S. Wagner; J. B. Weathers; C. P. Wells; F. H. Willis; Z. W. Friis; J. I. Marquez-Danian; R. W. Johnson; C. De Oliveira; H. K. Park; D. W. Tedder
• Keywords: Nuclear transmutation

The design concept for a subcritical, He-cooled, fast reactor, fueled with transuranics (TRUs) from spent nuclear fuel in coated TRISO particles and driven by tokamak D-T fusion neutron source, is being developed at Georgia Institute of Technology. basic has been two previous papers. This paper reports (a) advances the intended to enable achievement “deep-burn” TRUs passive safety, (b) investigations possibility reprocessing TRU extending strength (c) more extensive analyses confirm improve respect adequacy performance, heat removal, tritium self-sufficiency shielding, (d) that International Tokamak Experimental Reactor divertor, magnet heating/current drive systems can be adapted, (e) cycle further investigate contribution such reactor could make closing cycle.