Conceptual configurations of an accelerator-driven subcritical system utilizing minor actinides

Conference · Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012

OSTI ID:22105670

Cao, Y.; Gohar, Y. ^[1]

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1. Nuclear Engineering Div., Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Ave., IL 60439 (United States)

This paper purposes an Accelerator-Driven Subcritical (ADS) system which utilizes the Minor Actinides (MAs) from the US spent nuclear fuel inventory. A mobile fuel concept with micro-particles suspended in the liquid metal is adopted in the purposed system to avoid difficulties of developing and testing new MAs solid fuel forms. Three ADS configurations were developed and analyzed using the Monte Carlo fuel burnup methodology. The analyses demonstrated the capabilities of the proposed system to utilize the MAs and to dispose of the US spent nuclear fuels. (authors)

• Research Organization: American Nuclear Society, Inc., 555 N. Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, Illinois 60526 (United States)
• OSTI ID: 22105670
• Resource Relation: Conference: PHYSOR 2012: Conference on Advances in Reactor Physics - Linking Research, Industry, and Education, Knoxville, TN (United States), 15-20 Apr 2012; Other Information: Country of input: France; 16 refs.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATORS
ACTINIDES
BURNUP
CONFIGURATION
LIQUID METALS
MONTE CARLO METHOD
NEUTRON SOURCES
PARTICLES
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
REACTOR CORES
SOLID FUELS
SPALLATION
SPENT FUELS
TESTING