| 摘要 |
The present invention relates to a nuclear reactor with a circuit for liquid nuclear fuel which, in contrast to similar systems such as the generation IV liquid salt reactor, does not use the fuel circuit at the same time to remove heat. The cooling is provided instead by a separate cooling circuit in close thermal contact with the conduit of the liquid fuel. In this way, the advantages of a liquid fuel can be fully exploited, while at the same time the cooling circuit can be optimized. This results in considerable simplifications of the safety devices. This reactor also has an optimized neutron economy and is thus able to deactivate its own long-life fission products, such that only short-life radiotoxic waste has to be stored. With the neutron surplus, moreover, long-life radiotoxic constituents from spent fuel in today's light-water reactors can be deactivated or medical radio-isotopes produced. |
