Plutonium and minor actinides utilization in Thorium molten salt reactor

Journal Article · Wed Jun 06 00:00:00 EDT 2012 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4725445· OSTI ID:22004159

Waris, Abdul; Aji, Indarta K; Novitrian,; Kurniadi, Rizal; Su'ud, Zaki ^[1]

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1. Nuclear Physics and Biophysics Research Division, Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jalan Ganesa 10 Bandung 40132 (Indonesia)

FUJI-12 reactor is one of MSR systems that proposed by Japan. The original FUJI-12 design considers Th/{sup 233}U or Th/Pu as main fuel. In accordance with the currently suggestion to stay away from the separation of Pu and minor actinides (MA), in this study we evaluated the utilization of Pu and MA in FUJI-12. The reactor grade Pu was employed in the present study as a small effort of supporting THORIMS-NES scenario. The result shows that the reactor can achieve its criticality with the Pu and MA composition in the fuel of 5.96% or more.

• OSTI ID: 22004159
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1448, Issue 1; Conference: ICANSE 2011: 3. international conference on advances in nuclear science and engineering, Bali (Indonesia), 14-17 Nov 2011; Other Information: (c) 2012 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
CRITICALITY
DESIGN
FISSION
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MOLTEN SALT REACTORS
NUCLEAR FUELS
PLUTONIUM
REACTOR SAFETY
THORIUM
URANIUM 233