Fuel feed cases studied consist of natural uranium or 1.0 _??_ enriched uranium blended with recycle of 90% of the plutonium produced in the reactor. The fuel irradiation control factor,
A, which characterizes the modified bidirectional fueling, investigated in this paper were 0, 0.3 and 0.5 for the case of 1.0 _??_ enriched uranium feed. The principal aim of the modified bidirectional fuel management was to improve the peak to average power density ratio over the improvement which could be expected from the recycle of plutonium and the uranium feed of higher enrichment.
The best peak to average power density ratios obtained with the modified bidirectional fuel management were:
1.93 at
A=0.5 for natural uranium feed blended with 90% plutonium produced in the reactor;
1.70 at
A=0.3 for 1.0 _??_ enriched uranium feed blended with 90% plutonium produced in the reactor.
The best numbers obtained with the ordinary bidirectional fuel management were:
2.94 for natural uranium feed blended with 90% plutonium produced in the reactor;
2.53 for 1.0 _??_ enriched uranium feed blended with 90% plutonium produced in the reactor;
3.14 for 1.0 _??_ enriched uranium feed without plutonium recycle.
Therefore, the modified bidirectional management could achieve substantial improvement in the peak to average power density ratio. However, the average burn-up experienced by the fuel showed a slight decrease with the modified bidirectional fuel management. For example, the average burn-up changes were as follows;
9086 MWD/t of fuel for the ordinary bidirectional fuel management with natural uranium feed blended with 90% plutonium produced in the reactor;
8340 MWD/t of fuel for the modified bidirectional fuel management (
A=0.5) with natural uranium feed blended with 90% plutonium produced in the reactor;
15167 MWD/t of fuel for the ordinary bidirectional fuel management with 1.0 _??_ enriched uranium feed blended with 90% plutonium produced in the reactor;
14638 MWD/t of fuel for the modified bidirectional fuel management (
A=0.3) with 1.0 _??_ enriched uranium feed blended with 90% plutonium produced in the reactor;
11352 MWD/t of fuel for the ordinary bidirectional fuel management with 1.0 _??_ enriched uranium feed which was not blended with plutonium.
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