Conceptual design of a breed & burn molten salt reactor
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A breed-and-burn molten salt reactor (BBMSR) concept is proposed to address the Generation IV fuel cycle sustainability objective in a once-through cycle with low enrichment and no reprocessing. The BBMSR uses separate fuel and coolant molten salts, with the fuel contained in assemblies of individual tubes that can be shuffled and reclad periodically to enable high burnup. In this dual-salt configuration, the BBMSR may overcome several limitations of previous breed-and-burn (B
A central challenge in design of the BBMSR fuel is balancing the neutronic requirement of large fuel volume fraction for B
Fuel configurations that satisfy both neutronic and thermal-hydraulic objectives are identified for natural, 5