FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF A
DUAL-CORE BOILING SUPERHEAT REACTOR
Open Access
Author:
Ross, Jacob Wayne
Graduate Program:
Nuclear Engineering
Degree:
Master of Science
Document Type:
Master Thesis
Date of Defense:
None
Committee Members:
Dr Lawrence Hochreiter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor Lawrence E Hochreiter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor Arthur Thompson Motta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
For research concerning economical applications of high temperature reactor
technology, a novel approach for creating a Boiling Superheat Reactor (BSR) by
augmenting an Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) vessel with a steam
superheating reactor core is examined. This design utilizes Very High Temperature
Reactor (VHTR) assembly inverted design concepts to develop a superheater assembly.
The superheater assemblies are placed in the ABWR by modifying the ABWR’s reactor
vessel head and steam dryers to accommodate the superheating reactor core. A
conservative estimation demonstrates that this BSR design provides an overall thermal
power of 5180 MW at 43.4% efficiency. The resultant electrical power output of 2250
MW from the BSR over the 1360 MW of the ABWR provides a substantial increase of
890 MWe.
