A Comparative Study of Uranium and Thorium Based Fuel Pins using Code FAIR-TFC

Abstract

A new version of the fuel performance analysis code 'FAIR' is being developed with the capabilities of analysing thorium based fuel pins under normal operating and accidental conditions. Many important thermodynamics properties of the thorium fuel have been incorporated in this code based on the latest literature. A case study has also been shown to compare relative performance between a uranium and a thorium fuel pins.