Fuel Assembly Design Study for Modular Gas Cooled Fast Reactor using Monte Carlo Parallelization Method

As one of the advanced reactors new generation concept, Gas-cooled Fast Reactors can achieve higher electricity efficiency compare to the previous generation. The modular design is perfectly matched with Indonesia region that has many small islands. In this paper will be discussed about the design s...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2021-02, Vol.1772 (1), p.12025
Main Authors: Ilham, Muhammad, Raflis, Helen, Suud, Zaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Assembly
Building codes
Computing time
Fast nuclear reactors
Fuels
Gas cooled fast reactors
Mathematical analysis
Modular design
Monte Carlo simulation
Nuclear electric power generation
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear reactors
Parallel processing
Physics
Reactors
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Summary:As one of the advanced reactors new generation concept, Gas-cooled Fast Reactors can achieve higher electricity efficiency compare to the previous generation. The modular design is perfectly matched with Indonesia region that has many small islands. In this paper will be discussed about the design study of the fuel assembly for modular nuclear power plants using helium as cooling (GFR). The design reactors with hexagonal assembly and square assembly as a comparison to see which assembly configuration in GFR to get optimum results. Calculation for neutronic used Monte Carlo method with parallelization to accelerate computing time. Using OpenMC program code to build full three-dimension core simulation and neutronic calculation with nuclear data ENDF/B-VIII.b5 as a library. The neutronics results show the optimum design can be achieved.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/1772/1/012025