TY - GEN
T1 - LMFR Design and Optimization Methodology
AU - Al-Dawood, Khaldoon A.
AU - Palmtag, Scott P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022. All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2022/5/15
Y1 - 2022/5/15
N2 - This paper presents and applies a methodology for designing and optimizing Liquid Metal-cooled Fast Reactors (LMFRs). The methodology, called the Design and Optimization Methodology (DOM), achieves its goals by the effective exploration of a search space. The paper presents two case studies to demonstrate DOM. Both studies were based on the WEC long-life core LFR design. In the first study, DOM was used to explore the search space in the vicinity of the WEC long-life core LFR design trying to find a more optimized design. The objective of this optimization attempt was to reduce the fuel cycle cost. The WEC long-life core LFR design uses uranium mononitride (UN) fuel with natural nitrogen enrichment. In the second study, DOM was used to design a competitive UN fueled Lead-cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) which uses 15N enriched UN fuel. Based on the results from the second study, an estimation of the 15N enrichment cost required to obtain an economic core was performed.
AB - This paper presents and applies a methodology for designing and optimizing Liquid Metal-cooled Fast Reactors (LMFRs). The methodology, called the Design and Optimization Methodology (DOM), achieves its goals by the effective exploration of a search space. The paper presents two case studies to demonstrate DOM. Both studies were based on the WEC long-life core LFR design. In the first study, DOM was used to explore the search space in the vicinity of the WEC long-life core LFR design trying to find a more optimized design. The objective of this optimization attempt was to reduce the fuel cycle cost. The WEC long-life core LFR design uses uranium mononitride (UN) fuel with natural nitrogen enrichment. In the second study, DOM was used to design a competitive UN fueled Lead-cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) which uses 15N enriched UN fuel. Based on the results from the second study, an estimation of the 15N enrichment cost required to obtain an economic core was performed.
KW - Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS)
KW - LFR
KW - LMFR
KW - UN fuel
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85180630284
U2 - 10.13182/PHYSOR22-37576
DO - 10.13182/PHYSOR22-37576
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85180630284
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022
SP - 615
EP - 624
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022
PB - American Nuclear Society
T2 - 2022 International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022
Y2 - 15 May 2022 through 20 May 2022
ER -