Minior Actinide Doppler Coefficient Measurement Assessment
Abstract
The "Minor Actinide Doppler Coefficient Measurement Assessment" was a Department of Energy (DOE) U-NERI funded project intended to assess the viability of using either the FLATTOP or the COMET critical assembly to measure high temperature Doppler coefficients. The goal of the project was to calculate using the MCNP5 code the gram amounts of Np-237, Pu-238, Pu-239, Pu-241, AM-241, AM-242m, Am-243, and CM-244 needed to produce a 1E-5 in reactivity for a change in operating temperature 800C to 1000C. After determining the viability of using the assemblies and calculating the amounts of each actinide an experiment will be designed to verify the calculated results. The calculations and any doncuted experiments are designed to support the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative in conducting safety analysis of advanced fast reactor or acceoerator-driven transmutation systems with fuel containing high minor actinide content.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 927795
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ID/14646
TRN: US0804572
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC07-05ID14646
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; ACTINIDES; COMETS; DOPPLER COEFFICIENT; FAST REACTORS; FUEL CYCLE; SAFETY ANALYSIS; TRANSMUTATION; VIABILITY
Citation Formats
Hertel, Nolan E, and Blaylock, Dwayne. Minior Actinide Doppler Coefficient Measurement Assessment. United States: N. p., 2008.
Web. doi:10.2172/927795.
Hertel, Nolan E, & Blaylock, Dwayne. Minior Actinide Doppler Coefficient Measurement Assessment. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/927795
Hertel, Nolan E, and Blaylock, Dwayne. 2008.
"Minior Actinide Doppler Coefficient Measurement Assessment". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/927795. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/927795.
@article{osti_927795,
title = {Minior Actinide Doppler Coefficient Measurement Assessment},
author = {Hertel, Nolan E and Blaylock, Dwayne},
abstractNote = {The "Minor Actinide Doppler Coefficient Measurement Assessment" was a Department of Energy (DOE) U-NERI funded project intended to assess the viability of using either the FLATTOP or the COMET critical assembly to measure high temperature Doppler coefficients. The goal of the project was to calculate using the MCNP5 code the gram amounts of Np-237, Pu-238, Pu-239, Pu-241, AM-241, AM-242m, Am-243, and CM-244 needed to produce a 1E-5 in reactivity for a change in operating temperature 800C to 1000C. After determining the viability of using the assemblies and calculating the amounts of each actinide an experiment will be designed to verify the calculated results. The calculations and any doncuted experiments are designed to support the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative in conducting safety analysis of advanced fast reactor or acceoerator-driven transmutation systems with fuel containing high minor actinide content.},
doi = {10.2172/927795},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/927795},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2008},
month = {Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2008}
}