Thorium fuel Performance: A comparative study on thorium's efficiency in PWR reactors

E Mammadzada, A Kara - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the behavior of thorium-containing mixed oxide (TOX) fuels with
different uranium (235 U) enrichment levels in Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs). Using …

Neutronic analysis of an ads fuelled with minor actinide and designed for spent fuel enrichment and fissile fuel production

B Durmaz, G Bakir, BA Arslan… - Nuclear Technology and …, 2021 - doiserbia.nb.rs
This paper presents analyses of enrichments of uranium taken out from Canada Deuterium
Uranium and pressurized water reactors spent fuels and fissile fuel breeding from thorium in …

Study of the Effects of Moderators on ADS System Performance Based on UN-ThO2 Fuel

AMM Ali, HH Abou-Gabal, NMA Mohamed… - Nuclear Science and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The neutron spectrum is an essential factor in making possible the increase of 233U isotope
breeding from thorium fuel in an accelerator-driven subcritical (ADS) system; therefore …

[PDF][PDF] Actinide Transmutation Performance Evaluation of Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactor with Thorium Bearing Fuel

BB ACAR - Ankara/Turkey, 2022 - researchgate.net
Spent fuel discharged from nuclear power reactors is a mix of various radionuclides. It
contains roughly 95.5 weight percent (w/o) uranium and 1 w/o plutonium with fissile contents …