Acknowledgement
This work is supported by the "Characteristics Analysis and Influence Research of Core Power Redistribution and Pool Complex Thermal Stratification for Pump-driven Lead-cooled Fast Reactor under Asymmetric Operation Conditions" of Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (Grant No. 2019JJ40239), "Pre-research on key technologies of small long-life natural circulation lead-bismuth fast reactor" of Open Foundation of Science and Technology on Reactor System Design Technology Laboratory (Grant No. HT-KFKT-10-2018001) and Opening Project of Cooperative Innovation Center for Nuclear Fuel Cycle Technology and Equipment, University of South China (Grant No. 2019KFZ08).
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