New capability for isotopic mass tracking in pyroprocess simulation

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (USA)

OSTI ID:7082316

Liaw, J R; Ackerman, J P

In support of the Integral Fast Reactor fuel recycle demonstration project at Argonne's Hot Fuel Examination Facility-South (HFEF/S) facility, a new computational code package called PYRO has been developed. The basic PYRO code (version 1-1) models the atomic mass flows and phase compositions in the electrorefiner (pyrochemical reprocessing vessel). It has been extended in version 1-2 to include tracking of {approximately}800 isotopic masses, their radioactive decay, and related phenomena. In a demonstration simulation, the processing of 24 batches of spent Experimental Breeder Reactor II(EBR-II) U-10% Zr driver fuel (burnup {approximately}8%) containing 20 kg of uranium per batch was modeled.

• OSTI ID: 7082316
• Report Number(s): CONF-891103-; CODEN: TANSA; TRN: 90-023607
• Journal Information: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (USA), Vol. 60; Conference: Winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and nuclear power and technology exhibit, San Francisco, CA (USA), 26-30 Nov 1989; ISSN 0003-018X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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