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Preliminary safety analysis for a heavy water-moderated molten salt reactor
The heavy water-moderated molten salt reactor (HWMSR) is a newly proposed reactor concept, in which heavy water is adopted as the moderator and molten salt dissolved with fissile and fertile elements is used a...
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Design and prototy** of the readout electronics for the transition radiation detector in the high energy cosmic radiation detection facility
The high energy cosmic-radiation detection (HERD) facility is planned to launch in 2027 and scheduled to be installed on the China Space Station. It serves as a dark matter particle detector, a cosmic ray inst...
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Plutonium utilization in a small modular molten-salt reactor based on a batch fuel reprocessing scheme
A molten salt reactor (MSR) has outstanding features considering the application of thorium fuel, inherent safety, sustainability, and resistance to proliferation. However, fissile material
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Isovector giant dipole resonance mode with an improved propagation approach in the framework of EQMD model
The Extended Quantum Molecular Dynamics (EQMD) model is one of the few QMD-like transport approaches that can describe the \(\alpha \) ...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Assembly-level analysis on temperature coefficient of reactivity in a graphite-moderated fuel salt reactor fueled with low-enriched uranium
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Nondestructive technique for identifying nuclides using neutron resonance transmission analysis at CSNS Back-n
Nondestructive and noninvasive neutron assays are essential applications of neutron techniques. Neutron resonance transmission analysis (NRTA) is a powerful nondestructive method for investigating the elementa...
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Open AccessAssembly-level analysis on temperature coefficient of reactivity in a graphite-moderated fuel salt reactor fueled with low-enriched uranium
To provide a reliable and comprehensive data reference for core geometry design of graphite-moderated and low-enriched uranium fueled molten salt reactors, the influences of geometric parameters on the tempera...
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Analysis of burnup performance and temperature coefficient for a small modular molten-salt reactor started with plutonium
In a thorium-based molten salt reactor (TMSR), it is difficult to achieve the pure \({}^{232}\hbox {Th}\) ...
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Preliminary analysis of fuel cycle performance for a small modular heavy water-moderated thorium molten salt reactor
Heavy water-moderated molten salt reactors (HWMSRs) are novel molten salt reactors that adopt heavy water rather than graphite as the moderator while employing liquid fuel. Owing to the high moderating ratio o...
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Core and blanket thermal–hydraulic analysis of a molten salt fast reactor based on coupling of OpenMC and OpenFOAM
In the core of a molten salt fast reactor (MSFR), heavy metal fuel and fission products can be dissolved in a molten fluoride salt to form a eutectic mixture that acts as both fuel and coolant. Fission energy ...
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Transmutation of 129I in a single-fluid double-zone thorium molten salt reactor
Herein, we assess the 129I transmutation capability of a 2250-MWt single-fluid double-zone thorium molten salt reactor (SD-TMSR) by considering two methods. One is realized by loading an appropriate amount of 129
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Influence of 235U enrichment on the moderator temperature coefficient of reactivity in a graphite-moderated molten salt reactor
To optimize the temperature coefficient of reactivity (TCR) for a graphite-moderated and liquid-fueled molten salt reactor, the effects of fuel salt composition on the fuel salt temperature coefficient of reac...
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Development of a dynamics model for graphite-moderated channel-type molten salt reactor
A molten salt reactor (MSR) is one of the six advanced reactor concepts selected by the generation IV international forum because of its advantages of inherent safety, and the promising capabilities of Th-U br...
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Analysis of Th-U breeding capability for an accelerator-driven subcritical molten salt reactor
Accelerator-driven systems based on molten salt fuel have several unique advantages and features for advanced nuclear fuel utilization. The aim of this work was to study the Th-U breeding capability in such s...
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Effects of fuel salt composition on fuel salt temperature coefficient (FSTC) for an under-moderated molten salt reactor (MSR)
With respect to a liquid-fueled molten salt reactor (MSR), the temperature coefficient of reactivity mainly includes the moderator temperature coefficient (MTC) and the fuel salt temperature coefficient (FSTC...
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Transition toward thorium fuel cycle in a molten salt reactor by using plutonium
The molten salt reactor (MSR), as one of the Generation IV advanced nuclear systems, has attracted a worldwide interest due to its excellent performances in safety, economics, sustainability, and proliferation...
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Neutron excess method for performance assessment of thorium-based fuel in a breed-and-burn reactor with various coolants
Fertile fuel, such as thorium or depleted uranium, can be bred into fissile fuel and burnt in a breed-and-burn (B&B) reactor. Modeling a full core with fertile fuel can assess the performance of a B&B reactor...