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BURN-UP ASSESSMENTS FOR A LAND BASED POWER REACTOR. Project DRAGON.

G. Beliaev, H. Bruneder

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One of the main purposes of the Dragon Reactor Experiment is to test fuel elements suitable for a land based power reactor with the same principle features as the Dragon Reactor itself. In order to incorporate some fuel elements into the first charge which are realistic simulations of a power reactor fuel element, the performance of a 1000 MW(thermal) power reactor as a function of power density, fuel loading and thorium to uranium ratio was studied. This report deals only with batch loadings. A comparison with other investigations which include recycling and reshuffling is difficult.

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Key concepts: Environmental science, Power (physics), Waste management, Engineering, Quantum mechanics, Physics