Abstract
A long-life pressurized water reactor (PWR) has been reviewed as an innovative reactor design that can fulfill electricity demand. This study aimed to find out the optimum design of 800MWt long life PWR using Thorium-Uranium dioxide (Th-U)O2 fuels with Gadolinium (Gd2O3) and Protactinium-231 (Pa-231) as the burnable poisons. An established computer code of SRAC 2006 with JENDL 4.0 as data nuclear library had been used for the analysis. A two-dimensional R-Z geometry and fuel volume fraction of 40% were used for core geometry analysis. The different fraction of Uranium dioxide, Uranium-235, Gadolinium, and Protactinium-231 had been carried out. The result of this study was a design of PWR 800MWt using Uranium dioxide fuel of 60% with enrichment 11%-12%-13% Uranium-235 and the addition of 0,025% Gd2O3 and 1,0% Pa-231 that could operate for ten years without refueling. The reactor could produce a power density of 45,4 watts/cc with excess reactivity about 3,6% dk/k. This study is expected to be a reference for a long-life pressurized water reactor using the Thorium-Uranium fuel cycles.
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