NEUP CINR-24-31778: Effects of Tritium-Graphite Interactions on Safety Transients in Graphite-Moderated Nuclear Reactors.

MSRs, FHRs, and HTGRs have tritium production rates 10 to 10,000 times larger than LWRs. Objective of this project is to: • Quantify the concentration of tritium in graphite in new generation FHRs and HTGRs as a function of time and operational conditions • Assess the impact of the tritium content in graphite on reactor physics during normal operations and safety transients • Quantify tritium release rates and release kinetics during reactor transients inducing temperature increases

Additional Info

Field	Value
Awarded Institution	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PI	Lorenzo Vergari