Speaker
Mr
Aleksandr Sorokin
(SSC RF-IPPE)
Description
As results of neutronics and thermal physical investigations of reactor installation BN-HT type with heat rating 600 MW have shown that there is a principal possibility to provide demanded parameters of a high-temperature fast reactor for production of a considerable quantity of hydrogen, for example, on the basis of one of thermochemical cycles or a high-temperature electrolysis with high factor of thermal use of the electric power. Safety requirements will be thus observed. The relative small sizes, the coolant type, the fissionable substance and structural materials allow to create a reactor with immanent to it properties (exclusion of reactor runaway by instantaneous neutrons, passive system of decay heat removal), providing the raised nuclear and radiation safety.
By calculations BN-VT for production of electric power and hydrogen on basis of solid oxide electrolysis mass transfer hydrogen and tritium taking into account principal new method of clearing by pumping out through special membranes it is shown, that efficiency such system is ~40%, volume of maded hydrogen is 2.8104 l/s (under normal conditions). Danger from tritium in a finished stock originates after hydrogen combustion in an aerosphere. Therefore at calculation of parameters of the secondary circuit it was accepted, that maximum permissible tritium concentration in maded hydrogen should not exceed 3.26 Bk/l. Maximum concentration of permissible tritium in air is 2.44•103 Bk/l almost in 1000 times above. Clearing of sodium from tritium to the concentration providing in maded hydrogen maximum permissible concentration equal 3.26 Bk/l makes additional demands to system of clearing from hydrogen: the coefficient of permeability of system of clearing of the secondary circuit from tritium should exceed 140 kg/s.
Taking into account high temperature experiments in which high efficiency of deduction of suspended matters of products of corrosion on the filters installed in низкотемпературной to a zone is shown, it is offered to use a principle of work of a cold trap: to chill sodium to necessary temperature with simultaneous deduction of products of corrosion on mass transfer surfaces, including filters. Working out of a necessary high temperature material and its studying under radiation demands the further investigations.
Country/Int. Organization
State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation – Institute for Physics and Power Engineering
Primary author
Mr
Aleksandr Sorokin
(SSC RF-IPPE)
Co-authors
Mr
Aleksandr Trufanov
(SSC RF-IPPE)
Mr
Alexey Kamaev
(SSC RF-IPPE)
Mr
Anatoly Ivanov
(SSC RF-IPPE)
Mr
Andrey Morozov
(SSC RF-IPPE)
Mr
Fedor Kozlov
(SSC RF-IPPE)
Mr
Victor Alekseev
(SSC RF-IPPE)
