Abstract
Safety performance of MOX fuel based Pb Bi cooled small fast power reactors has been analyzed and discussed. Though the thermal conductivity of MOX fuel is not large relative to that of nitride or metal fuel, but by proper combination of relatively small power density and relatively large natural circulation it can compensate fuel temperature decrease with coolant temperature increase smartly during unprotected loss of flow accident. Under such condition, accident analysis discussed in this paper show that under unprotected total loss of flow (ULOF) accident the reactor can survive inherently using combination of reactivity feedback. For unprotected rod run out transient over power (UTOP) accident the MOX reactor can overcome external reactivity by smaller power increase compared to that of nitride fueled reactors case. In this case doppler feedback plays much more important role compared to radial expansion component. So the MOX fueled small power reactors discussed here can survive both UTOP and ULOF accident with still enough temperature margin.
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