Abstract
An analytical study was performed to design an Accelerator Molten Salt Breeder (AMSB). The core of a vortex flow was adopted as a target of AMSB. In addition to heat deposition due to a proton beam, the influence of heat generation by the nuclear fission reaction was considered to evaluate the maximum temperature of a target region. The Rankine's vortex motion was assumed to calculate the velocity distribution in the target region. The rate of heat generation by the fission reaction was assumed to be constant and uniform within a proper cylindrical region. The temperature distributions were obtained by a finite difference method. The results indicated that heat generation by fission reaction played a dominant role on the temperature distribution and also on the maximum temperature of the target fluid, even in the case of the standard from AMSB, in which the target fluid contained few fissile components.
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