Review of the microheterogeneous thoria‐urania fuel for micro‐sized high temperature reactors

MH Rabir, AF Ismail, MS Yahya - International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a systematic review of the micro‐modular thorium‐fueled high
temperature reactors (HTR) loaded with duplex fuel pellet design. Specifically, each unique …

Numerical investigation of flow characteristics and packing structure of binary-sized pebble flow in a circulating pebble bed

M Wu, N Gui, X Yang, J Tu, S Jiang - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The pebble size is one of the factors affecting the flow characteristics of pebble-bed HTGRs.
The binary-sized circulating pebble flow is investigated from the perspective of flow …

[HTML][HTML] Neutronics calculation of the conceptual TRISO duplex fuel rod design

MH Rabir, AF Ismail, MS Yahya - Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The duplex fuel pellet includes UO 2 components as seed and ThO 2 blanket, originally
designed to increase the breeding rate of fissile materials in light water breeder reactors …

A neutronic investigation of tristructural isotropic‐duplex fuel in a high‐temperature reactor prismatic seed‐and‐blanket fuel block configuration with reduced power …

MH Rabir, AF Ismail, MS Yahya - International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the neutronic analysis of a tristructural isotropic (TRISO)‐duplex fuel
loaded into the high‐temperature reactor (HTR) prismatic fuel block designs for a seed‐and …

Investigation of uncertainty caused by random arrangement of coated fuel particles in HTTR criticality calculations

HQ Ho, Y Honda, M Goto, S Takada - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Coated fuel particle (CFP) is one of important factors attributing to the inherent safety feature
of high temperature engineering test reactor (HTTR). However, the random arrangement of …

Research on fine modeling of dispersion fuel plate based on lattice method

Y Chen, P Liu, S Li, L Lou, A Li - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract For Double Heterogeneous (DH) systems containing particle-dispersed fuel and
particle-dispersed burnable poison, the Monte Carlo-based explicit modeling method is …

NEUTRONICS CHARACTERIZATIONS OF THE DUPLEX TRISO THORIUM FUEL ASSEMBLY BLOCKS USING MCNPX CODE

MHB Rabir, AF Ismail, MS Yahya - JOURNAL of NUCLEAR and Related …, 2022 - jnrtmns.net
The UO 2 seed and ThO 2 blanket in the duplex fuel pellet were originally designed to
increase the breeding rate of fissile materials in light water breeder reactors. In this …

[PDF][PDF] Uncertainty Propagation for the HTTR in Terms of the IAEA CRP on HTGR Uncertainty Analysis in Modelling

V NAICKER, SF Sihlangu, J Hou… - Proc. Int. Conf. on High …, 2021 - researchgate.net
The IAEA Coordinated Research Project (CRP) on the HTGR Uncertainty Analysis in
Modelling focusses on the uncertainty propagation of neutronic core simulations and …

Ordered Particle Packing in Dense TRISO/SiC Fuel Elements and Preliminary Assessment of Neutronic and Thermomechanical Characteristics

BJ Ade, DP Schappel, BR Betzler… - Nuclear Science and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Detailed analysis of the particle distribution in Transformational Challenge Reactor fuel
elements indicates that particle packing is not random; instead, it follows a relatively ordered …

Comparative study of random and uniform models for the coated fuel particles distribution in pebble bed reactors

JAR García, CRG Hernández… - … Journal of Nuclear …, 2016 - inderscienceonline.com
The use of TRISO fuel is a main feature of the high temperature reactors. In these reactors,
the heterogeneity in the internal composition of the TRISO particle and the random …