Long-lived fission product transmutation studies
- Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Centre de Cadarache, 13108 Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance (France)
- European Commission, Institute for Transuranium Elements, Postfach 2340, 76125 Karlsruhe (Germany)
- NRG Petten, P.O. Box 25, 1755 ZG Petten (Netherlands)
The transmutation of long-lived fission products (LLFP) is being studied by CEA (France), NRG (Netherlands) and ITU (Germany). The fission products considered are technetium {sup 99}Tc, iodine {sup 129}I and caesium {sup 135}Cs. In the past years, an experimental program was started to investigate the material aspects of transmutation of these fission products, with different irradiations in thermal and fast reactors. After having chosen LLFP target chemical forms, material R and D is ongoing in order to fabricate and to characterise samples, for irradiation experiments in the thermal reactor HFR-Petten (Netherlands) and in the fast reactor (FR) Phenix (France). For CEA, a special purpose of this programme is to have sufficient information to assess the feasibility of LLFP transmutation in 2006.
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 23142198
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Global'99: International Conference on Future Nuclear Systems - Nuclear Technology - Bridging the Millennia, Las Vegas, NV (United States), 29 Aug - 3 Sep 1999; Other Information: Country of input: France; 10 refs.; available from American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (US)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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