On Some Fundamental Peculiarities of the Traveling Wave Reactor

Figure 17

Heat transfer equation solution for a model georeactor (source ~ 2nd order temperature dependence,  J/(cm³·s·K²)); initial and boundary temperatures equal to 6000 K; fissile medium is a cube 10 × 10 × 10 m. The presented results correspond to the following times of temperature field evolution: (a) (1–10) · 10⁻⁷ s, (b) 10⁻⁶ s, (c) 0.5 s, and (d) 50 s.