Analysis on keff fuel arrangement of puspati triga reactor core with added mass of thorium fuel in reactor core

  • Abdul Hannan Damahuri
  • Hassan Mohamed
  • Mohamad Hairie Rabir
  • Faridah Mohamad Idris
  • ABDUL AZIZ BIN MOHAMED MNS_UNIX_PUSPATI
Keywords: RTP, thorium, uranium, hydride, MCNP

Abstract

Abstract

This paper used thorium and uranium zirconium hydride (U-ZrH1.6) as fuels for the PUSPATI TRIGA Reactor (RTP) and arranged with different core configuration. It was simulated using Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP) Transport code with addition of 2, 20 and 39 thorium fuel rods. In the simulation, thorium fuel rods were placed together with U-ZrH1.6 fuel rods in different variations, which have a different thorium mass. Results, such as, effective criticality keff estimated and compared to those of the experimental and simulation of the original core RTP. The buildup uranium-233 are calculated for each configuration. Arrangement of seed blanket configuration gives the similar result with the original core RTP.

 

Abstrak

Makalah ini menggunakan thorium dan uranium zirconium hydride (U-ZrH1.6) sebagai bahan api untuk PUSPATI TRIGA Reactor (RTP) dan diatur dengan konfigurasi teras yang berbeza. Ia disimulasi menggunakan kod pengangkutan Monte Carlo N-Zarah (MCNP) dengan penambahan rod bahan api 2, 20 dan 39. Dalam simulasi, rod bahan api torium diletakkan bersama-sama dengan rod bahan api U-ZrH1.6 dalam pelbagai variasi, yang mempunyai massa torium yang berbeza. Keputusan, seperti, kritikal yang berkesan akan dianggarkan dan dibandingkan dengan yang dilakukan oleh eksperimen dan simulasi RTP teras asal. Penumpuan uranium-233 dikira untuk setiap konfigurasi. Pengaturan konfigurasi selimut benih memberi hasil yang serupa dengan teras RTP asal.

Published
2020-03-30
How to Cite
Damahuri, A. H., Mohamed, H., Rabir, M. H., Mohamad Idris, F., & MOHAMED, A. A. (2020). Analysis on keff fuel arrangement of puspati triga reactor core with added mass of thorium fuel in reactor core. JOURNAL of NUCLEAR and Related TECHNOLOGIES, 16(02), 11-17. Retrieved from http://jnrtmns.net/index.php/jnrt/article/view/31
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