DEVELOPING THE CANADIAN SCWR CONCEPT FOR ADDRESSING GIF TECHNOLOGY GOALS1
Canada is developing the Super-Critical Water-cooled Reactor (SCWR) concept from the wellestablishedpressure-tube reactor technology. The Canadian SCWR employs an advanced fuelchannel design capable of transferring heat from the fuel to the moderator, and to the ultimate heatsink using an advanced passive-moderator cooling system. This design improvement maintainscooling of the fuel and can potentially achieve the no-core melt design feature. The CanadianSCWR is operating at a pressure of 25 MPa with a core outlet temperature of 625°, which increasesdrastically the thermal efficiency from 34％ of the current fleet of reactors to 48％ (a 40％ rise inrelative efficiency). Furthermore, simplification in plant design has led to cost reduction. TheCanadian SCWR adopts the advanced thorium fuel cycle to enhance the sustainability, economic,and security. Several design features of the Canadian SCWR are presented.
L.K.H.Leung
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited,Chalk River,Ontario,Canada
国际会议
3rd China-Canada Joint Workshop on Supercritical Water-Cooled Reactors(第三届中国-加拿大超临界水堆研讨会 (CCSC-2012)
西安
英文
1-12
2012-04-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）