Wall stabilization in a possible high-temperature gas-core fission reactor

✍ Scribed by J. Kistemaker; M.J.P.C. Nieskens

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1978
• Weight: 434 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0013-7480
• DOI: 10.1016/0013-7480(78)90074-8

✦ Synopsis

It

is investigated if graphite as wall material in a gas-core reactor is compatible with a gas mixture consisting of UF, and carbon-fluorine compounds at high temperatures. A possibility for non-corrosive operation exists at temperatures ranging from 2000 to 2500 K at pressures of about 30atm, introducing a mixture of UF, and about 20 to 30 mole % C2F, or C,F,. Another possibility is to introduce UFI as an aerosol in CF4 as a carrier gas. For the latter case a flow-sheet is presented. indicating the possibility of a non-proliferation fission reactor.

High temperature fission reactor Gas-core fission reactor Corrosion

Non-proliferation