arXiv:2003.11820·v1·Nuclear Theory
Simulation of the traveling wave burning on epithermal neutrons on the year time scale
V.D. Rusov · V.A. Tarasov · M.V. Eingorn · S.A. Chernezhenko · A.A. Kakaev · V.P. Smolyar · S.I. Kosenko · T.N. Zelentsova
Abstract
We present the newly obtained results of two computer simulations of the epithermal neutron-nuclear burning in natural uranium. Each of them modeled the period of six months of the traveling wave reactor (TWR) operation -- for two different flux densities of an external neutron source. The simulation results confirm the existence of a nuclear burning wave at longer time scales, and reveal the dependence of the wave burning modes on the parameters of an external neutron source.
Comments: 13 pages, 11 figures