Reactor information missing

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Reactor information missing #27

Closed gyutaepark closed 6 years ago

gyutaepark commented 7 years ago

The reactors_pris_2016.csv file available in arfc BOX does not provide all the information necessary for a successful input file creation for CYCLUS. I've recognized that Teddy has used certain values for the missing data but am not sure where some of the data is from.

Do you happen to know where I may be able to get the following information for the following reactor types? Information

number of assemblies
assembly size (mass)

Reactor Type

WCR
GCR
FBR
LWGR

I was unable to find any from the picture of the book that Teddy has posted on arfc slack. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

gyutaepark commented 7 years ago

Or should I assume that these reactors are similar enough to PWR and use what I have regarding PWRs?

katyhuff commented 7 years ago

OECD NEA has benchmarks for many of these reactor types (e.g. HTGR) ... https://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/1185411

The acronyms are a little ambiguous to me, as currently stated.

GCR is almost certainly "gas cooled reactor" though the main GEN-IV gas-cooled design is usually abbreviated HTGR. Which gas reactor, specifically, are we talking about?
FBR = fast burner? fast breeder? two different things... this probably references fast breeders... but which kind? SFR breeder probably...
WCR = water cooled reactor? This can be approximated as either BWR or PWR unless you have additional information about the particular reactor (is it russian? in that case, it's probably a VVER).
LWGR = this one is better known as the RBMK.

katyhuff commented 7 years ago

Please close this once the question has been answered.

gyutaepark commented 7 years ago

I'll do that. Thank you!

jbae11 commented 7 years ago

@gyutaepark GCR - MAGNOX by UK FBR - SFR breeder reactor (most of them except for Russia, I think, are experimental ones) WCR - in this context is the Egyptian Al Dabaa reactors, which are VVER-1200s

Check out the book Nuclear Fission Reactors both this book and the reference professor huff mentioned are in zotero under fuelcycle - benchmarks

You can close this issue when you see fit.

gyutaepark commented 6 years ago

I've found out the reactor specifications for the most commonly used reactors. This addition is shown in https://github.com/arfc/predicting-the-past/commit/a0855d38218c55edadd0f61e4f30fc79cab678b9

gyutaepark commented 6 years ago

Closing with #35