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The evaluation of reactor performance by using flibe and flinabe molten salts in the APEX hybrid reactor   
Yazarlar
Turgay Korkut
Aǧrı İbrahim Çeçen Üniversitesi, Turkey
Aybaba Hançerlioǧullari
Kastamonu University, Turkey
Özet
The modeling of APEX hybrid reactor, produced by using ARIES-RS hybrid reactor technology, has been performed by using the MCNP-4B computer code and ENDF/B-V-VI nuclear data. Around the fusion chamber, molten salts Flibe (Li 2BeF4) and Flinabe (LiNaBeF4) were used as cooling materials. APEX reactor was modeled in the torus form by adding nuclear materials of low significance in the specified percentages between percent 0-12 to the molten salts. The result of the study indicated that fissile material production, UF4 and ThF4 heavy metal salt increased nearly at the same percentage and it was observed that the percentage of it was practically the same in both materials. In order for the hybrid reactor to work itself in terms of tritium, TBR (tritium breeding ratio) should be lower than 1.05. When flibe molten salt was utilized in the APEX hybrid reactor, TBR was calculated as >1, 22 and when flinabe molten salt was used, TBR was calculated as>1.06. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011.
Anahtar Kelimeler
APEX | Blanket | Flibe | Flinabe | Hybrid | MCNP
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SCOPUS dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Journal of Fusion Energy
Dergi ISSN 0164-0313
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 01-2012
Cilt No 31
Sayı 2
Sayfalar 151 / 159
Doi Numarası 10.1007/s10894-011-9441-0