A Comparison of Long-Lived, Proliferation Resistant Fast Reactors

Conference · Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2001

OSTI ID:910843

Weaver, Kevan Dean; Herring, James Stephen; Mac Donald, Philip Elsworth

Various methods have been proposed to transmute and thus consume the current inventory of trans-uranic waste that exists in spent light-water-reactor fuel. These methods include both critical and sub-critical systems. The neutronics of metallic and nitride fuels loaded with 20-30wt% light-water-reactor plutonium plus minor actinides for use in a lead-bismuth and sodium cooled fast reactor are discussed, with an emphasis on the fuel cycle life and isotopic content. Calculations show that core life can extend beyond 20 years, and the average actinide burn rate is similar for both the sodium and lead-bismuth cooled cases ranging from 0.5 to 0.9 g/MWd.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC07-99ID-13727
• OSTI ID: 910843
• Report Number(s): INEEL/CON-01-00825; TRN: US200802%%220
• Resource Relation: Conference: International Conference on Back-End of the Fuel Cycle: From Research to Solution (GLOBAL 2001),Paris, France,09/09/2001,09/13/2001
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 - GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
ACTINIDES
FAST REACTORS
FUEL CYCLE
NITRIDES
PLUTONIUM
PROLIFERATION
SODIUM
WASTES
fast reactors
liquid-metal-cooled
proliferation resistance
transmutation