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Title Steady-state neutronic analysis of converting the UK CONSORT reactor for ADS experiments
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Abstract CONSORT is the UK's last remaining civilian research reactor, and its present core is soon to be removed. This study examines the feasibility of re-using the reactor facility for accelerator-driven systems research by replacing the fuel and installing a spallation neutron target driven by an external proton accelerator. MCNP5/MCNPX were used to model alternative, high-density fuels and their coupling to the neutrons generated by 230~MeV protons from a cyclotron striking a solid tungsten spallation target side-on to the core. Low-enriched U3Si2 and U-9Mo were considered as candidates, with only U-9Mo found to be feasible in the compact core; fuel element size and arrangement were kept the same as the original core layout to minimise thermal hydraulic and other changes. Reactor thermal power up to 2.5~kW is predicted for a keff of 0.995, large enough to carry out reactor kinetic experiments.
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Keywords nuclear , Physics , neutronics , ads
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Language English (EN)
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Journal Article Ann Nucl Energy 38 (2011): 2653-2660. http://dx.doi.org….anucene.2011.08.019 2011