Taking the large commercial pressurized water reactor and its mature fuel assembly as reference, this paper has analyzed economic performance of two accident tolerant fuel (ATF) designs based on once-through fuel cycle. The results show that the fuel cycle costs of both AT F designs have grown due to application of BeO powder, which is expensive. In order to reach the same electric cost as that of the referred fuel assembly, burn-up of these two AT F designs should be enhanced to 51323MWd/tU and 52054MWd/tU respectively.

Volume Subject Area:
Nuclear Fuel and Material, Reactor Physics, and Transport Theory
Topics:
Accidents, Economics , Fuels, Nuclear fuel cycle, Manufacturing, Pressurized water reactors
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