XIONG Wengang1, 2 LI Wenxin1 WANG Min1 1. Simulative calculation of 232U productions in thorium-uranium transform process based on thermal reactor[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2012, 35(5): 395-400.
XIONG Wengang1, 2 LI Wenxin1 WANG Min1 1. Simulative calculation of 232U productions in thorium-uranium transform process based on thermal reactor[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2012, 35(5): 395-400.DOI:
Simulative calculation of 232U productions in thorium-uranium transform process based on thermal reactor
The decay products of 232U produced in the thorium-uranium fuel cycle emit high energy γ-rays.This affects the fuel cycle greatly.In this paper
the 232U productions in thermal reactor using thorium fuel are analyzed by ORIGEN2
SCALE5 and the code based on the Bateman method.Under normal situation
232U is mainly produced by 232Th(n
2n) reaction chain
and more quantity of 230Th can be transformed into 232U while the neutron spectrum is softer.The burnup calculation of CANDU reactor and PWR assembly indicates that the232U in uranium increase with the burnup
and230Th in fresh thorium has linear correlation with232U/Utotalor232U/233U at discharge burnup.