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M. S. M. HusseinReactor & Radiation PhysicistRev. 2026-10-01

§ Publications 2017

Design of a Multispectrum CANDU Reactor for Burning Actinides: An Approach of Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Fuel Recycling

Type
Doctoral thesis
Venue
PhD thesis, Royal Military College of Canada (supervisors H. Bonin, B. Lewis)
Place
Kingston, Ontario
Pages
363 pp.
Year
2017

§1 Takeaway

What it did and showed.

Six full-core MSCR models in Serpent. The best uranium model destroyed 10.7 % of fissile isotopes in 1000 days; the best plutonium model 15.3 % over 2600 days. Either core alone is subcritical, so disturbing one shuts the reactor down.

His part: Author.

Part of: The Multispectrum CANDU Reactor →

§2 Read it

Where to find the paper.

§3 Cite

BibTeX.

@phdthesis{hussein2017mscr,
  author = {Mohamed Salah Hussein},
  title = {Design of a Multispectrum CANDU Reactor for Burning Actinides: An Approach of Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Fuel Recycling},
  school = {Royal Military College of Canada},
  year = {2017},
  pages = {363},
  url = {https://hdl.handle.net/11264/1321},
}

§· Related

On the same subject.

Related papers
No.YearTitleVenue
012015Design of a MultiSpectrum CANDU-based Reactor, MSCR, with 37-Element Fuel Bundles Using Serpent CodeM. S. Hussein, H. W. Bonin, B. J. Lewis, P. K. ChanICMSNSE 2015Conference · Ottawa