Comparison of PWR-IMF and FR fuel cycles

Conference · Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2007

OSTI ID:20979612

Darilek, Petr ^[1]; Zajac, Radoslav; Breza, Juraj ^[1]; Necas, Vladimir ^[2]

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1. VUJE, Inc., Okruzna 5, SK-91864 Trnava (Slovakia)
2. Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Ilkovicova 3, SK-81219 Bratislava (Slovakia)

The paper gives a comparison of PWR (Russia origin VVER-440) cycle with improved micro-heterogeneous inert matrix fuel assemblies and FR cycle. Micro-heterogeneous combined assembly contains transmutation pins with Pu and MAs from burned uranium reprocessing and standard uranium pins. Cycle analyses were performed by HELIOS spectral code and SCALE code system. Comparison is based on fuel cycle indicators, used in the project RED-IMPACT - part of EU FP6. Advantages of both closed cycles are pointed out. (authors)

• Research Organization: American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
• OSTI ID: 20979612
• Resource Relation: Conference: Advanced nuclear fuel cycles and systems (GLOBAL 2007), Boise - Idaho (United States), 9-13 Sep 2007; Other Information: Country of input: France; 7 refs; Related Information: In: Proceedings of GLOBAL 2007 conference on advanced nuclear fuel cycles and systems, 1873 pages.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
FUEL ASSEMBLIES
FUEL PINS
INDICATORS
REPROCESSING
URANIUM RECYCLE
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