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Models and Methods in the Neutronics of Fluid
Fuel Reactors
The recent renewed interest on fluid-fuel nuclear systems has
stimulated the development of models and methods for the physics of
these systems, for both steady-state and transient analysis. The
European research project MOST within the 5-th Framework Program has
devoted a considerable effort to the assessment of models and
computational tools for molten-salt systems. The seminar addresses the
activities carried out at Politecnico di Torino on the neutronics of
fluid-fuel systems. The basic physical phenomena connected to the
motion of the fuel in a nuclear reactor are illustrated. Suitable
mathematical models for the proper description of the neutronics are
presented, showing the peculiar effects of the velocity field on the
steady-state distribution and the time-dependent response for a molten
salt reactor, both critical and subcritical. The second part of the
seminar is devoted to the deduction of the quasi-static technique for
fluid-fuel systems, extending the classic factorization methods.
Results obtained in the recent benchmark exercise performed within the
MOST Projects are presented
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