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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.
Katsuyuki Kawashima, Kotaro Inoue, Setsuo Kobayashi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 55 | Number 3 | December 1981 | Pages 713-719
Technical Note | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32815
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A new core concept using an internal blanket, which is one type of heterogeneous core, has been developed. The core employs a disk-shaped internal blanket at the axial central region of the core. This internal blanket extends radially all the way through the core to the external blanket and is arranged so that its thickness is greater in the radial inner core region than the outer core region. It is designated as a “hamburger” core concept. Neutronics calculations for the equilibrium burnup cycle of 2500-MW(thermal) oxide-fueled liquid-metal fast breeder reactors exhibit the following advantages for the hamburger core over the corresponding conventional twoenrichment zone homogeneous one: