Micro Heteregeneous Approaches for the Insertion of Reprocessed and Combined Thorium Fuel Cycles in a PWR System-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Micro Heteregeneous Approaches for the Insertion of Reprocessed and Combined Thorium Fuel Cycles in a PWR System

Published:2016 Issue: Volume:1814 Page:
ISSN:0272-9172
Container-title:MRS Proceedings
language:en
Short-container-title:MRS Proc.

Author:

Monteiro Fabiana B. A.,Castro Victor F.,de Faria Rochkhudson B.,Fortini Ângela,Da Silva Clarysson A. M.,Pereira Claubia

Abstract

ABSTRACTA micro heteregenous reprocessed fuel spiked with thorium in a PWR fuel element considering (TRU-Th) cycle was simulated using three different configurations and different fissile materials that varied from 6.0% to 7.0%. The reprocessed fuels were obtained using the ORIGEN 2.1 code from a burned PWR standard fuel (33,000 MWd/tHM burned), with 3.1% of initial enrichment, which was remained in the cooling pool for five years and then reprocessed using UREX+ technique. The keff and plutonium generation during the burnup were evaluated and compared with the standard fuel. This study was performed using the SCALE 6.0.

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

General Engineering

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