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Design of an accelerator-driven subcritical dual fluid reactor for transmutation of actinides

The European Physical Journal Plus volume 134, Article number: 603 (2019) Cite this article

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An accelerator-driven subcritical dual fluid reactor (AD-DFR), which is a hybrid core operated by a high power accelerator, is designed for the transmutation of minor actinides. The subcritical core is dual in the sense that a lead-bismuth-eutectic-cooled fast reactor (LFR) is combined with a molten salt reactor (MSR). Thus, the core has two loops: one for the liquid metal coolant and the other for the molten salt fuel. The combination of LFR and MSR can take advantages of both reactor types. A subcritical core allows for loading a high fraction of minor actinides in fuels. An 800MW_t AD-DFR can transmute minor actinides approximately 120kg/year with only the maximum beam power of 13MW.

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  1. Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety, 34142, Daejeon, Korea

    Sang-in Bak

  2. Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, 16419, Suwon, Korea

    Sang-in Bak

  3. Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, 16419, Suwon, Korea

    Seung-Woo Hong

  4. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland

    Yacine Kadi

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Bak, Si., Hong, SW. & Kadi, Y. Design of an accelerator-driven subcritical dual fluid reactor for transmutation of actinides. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 134, 603 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2019-13015-3

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