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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
Charles Abou-Ghantous
Nuclear Technology | Volume 52 | Number 1 | January 1981 | Pages 57-65
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32689
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A simple economic analysis is proposed for light water reactor (LWR) in-core fuel management. Its final objective is the fuel cost. Using the discrete discounting technique with single payment costs, the fuel cost for one equilibrium cycle or a sequence of a number of nonequilibrium cycles may be determined. In this latter case, the costs are projected as groups of costs at the reference time. This technique is simplified by defining new economic factors, time scales, and burnup values. The fuel cost thus obtained is an average cost over the number of cycles considered. This analysis is written as a subroutine FULCOS suitable for absorption by short running computer codes that work the optimization problems for LWRs.