Nuclear Power Plants with Circulating Uranium Hexafluoride Based Fuel. Results of Investigations of Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer. Applications, Challenges, and Prospects. An Overviewстатья
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Аннотация:The application of UF6 circulating in the closed NPP contour makes it possible to realize the potential advantages of the flow-through design due to the gaseous fuel mobility compared with the existing NPPs with solid cores. At different plant designs, reactor arrangements, and special flow organization in fuel elements the power range from hundreds of kilowatts to tens megawatts can be realized. The areas of application of power plants with circulating UF6 can, in particular, include the spaceborne NPPs of wide power range for electric and plasma rocket engines used in the manned flight to Mars, the reactor-laser with direct pumping of gaseous laser mixtures with nuclear fission products, and the on-ground nuclear electric power plants of new generation with high performance with respect to the fuel cycle and safety. On the basis of an analysis of the results of investigations performed in USSR and USA to the end of the nineties of the last century and presented in this overview it can be concluded that from the standpoint of the physics of working processes and constructional materials resistant in the UF6 environment, there are no insurmountable obstacles for developing the NPPs with circulating UF6. The list of problems, whose solution can favor the further development of this line of research, if it would be implemented, is formulated.