Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/7804
Title: Utilization of Heavy Metal Molten Salts in the Aries-Rs Fusion Reactor
Authors: Übeyli, Mustafa
Yapıcı, Hüseyin
Keywords: heavy metal molten salt
fissile fuel breeding
tritium breeding
Publisher: Springer
Abstract: ARIES-RS is one of the major magnetic fusion energy reactor designs that uses a blanket having vanadium alloy structure cooled by lithium [1, 2]. It is a deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion driven reactor, having a fusion power of 2170 MW [1, 2]. This study presents the neutronic analysis of the ARIES-RS fusion reactor using heavy metal molten salts in which Li(2)BeF(4) as the main constituent was mixed with increased mole fractions of heavy metal salt (ThF(4) or UF(4)) starting by 2 mol.% up to 12 mol.%. Neutron transport calculations were carried out with the help of the SCALE 4.3 system by solving the Boltzmann transport equation with the XSDRNPM code in 238 neutron groups and a S(8)-P(3) approximation. According to the numerical results, tritium self-sufficiency was attained for the coolants, Flibe with 2% UF(4) or ThF(4) and 4% UF(4). In addition, higher energy multiplication values were found for the salt with UF(4) compared to that with ThF(4). Furthermore, significant amount of high quality nuclear fuel was produced to be used in external reactors.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10894-007-9129-7
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/7804
ISSN: 0164-0313
Appears in Collections:Elektrik ve Elektronik Mühendisliği Bölümü / Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection
WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection

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