Review Article
A Critical Review of the Recent Improvements in Minimizing Nuclear Waste by Innovative Gas-Cooled Reactors
Table 4
Summary of the comparison of the GCFR core
concepts.
| | Plate-type GCFR | CP-bed GCFR | PB-GCFR |
| | Power [M] | 600 | 2400 | 300 | | Power Density [W/cc] | 100 | 50 | 50 | | Irradiation time length [days] | 2944 | 1938 | 1138 | | Pu+MA charge (atomic fraction) | 20% | 20% | 25% | | DU initial mass[kg] | 12531.5 | 17543.8 | 5894.049 | | DU final mass [kg] | 11012.1 | 17034.6 | 5610.23 | | Pu initial mass [kg] | 2842.4 | 3966 | 1776.04 | | Pu final mass [kg] | 2699 | 3898 | 1708.45 | | MA initial mass [kg] | 299.1 | 417.7 | 186.615 | | MA final mass [kg] | 248.49 | 458.11 | 180.979 | | Δ/Energy [/GWD] | 86.02 | 10.95 | 83.17 | | Δ/Energy [/GWD] | 8.12 | 1.46 | 19.81 | | Δ/Energy [/GWD] | 2.87 | 0.87 | 1.64 |
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