Research Article

A Design and Optimization Methodology for Liquid Metal Fast Reactors

Table 10

Seed design for the ENLFR.

ParameterSeed design

Assembly pitch (cm)16.106
Pitch-to-diameter ratio1.1781
Number of fuel pins per assembly91
Fuel pellet radius (cm)0.5465
Fuel pin radius (cm)0.6178
Fuel pin pitch (cm)1.5244
Active fuel height (cm)205.84
Inner core enrichment (%)9.5345
Middle core enrichment (%)12.791
Outer core enrichment (%)14.259
Cycle length (EFPYs)20.3
15N enrichment (%)93.0