A feasibility study of a thorium fueled molten salt micro modular subcritical reactor using an electron accelerator
Accelerator Physics
2024-03-27 v3
Abstract
We present a design for a small subcritical molten salt thorium breeder reactor driven by an electron accelerator. Such a reactor could provide a safe and simple power source fuelled by thorium, without generating long-lived minor actinides. We use both Geant4 and MCNPX simulations to study the production of photons and photoneutrons, the criticality and the breeding in a simple conceptual design. We show that the concept is on the edge of viability.
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@article{arxiv.2401.12056,
title = {A feasibility study of a thorium fueled molten salt micro modular subcritical reactor using an electron accelerator},
author = {A. Rummana and R. Barlow and G. Myneni and S. M. Saad},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.12056},
year = {2024}
}