Fuel Sustainability And Actinide Production Of Doping Minor Actinide In Water-Cooled Thorium Reactor

Characteristics of Minor Actinide Transmutation in Minor Actinide Burner Reactors and Power Reactor

One of the techniques of minor actinides transmutation is to recycle these nuclides into fission reactors. Two concepts of a minor actinides burner reactor with very hard neutron energy spectrum as well as very high neutronjlux me discussed. The fuel cycle facilities for these burner reactors am assessed to discuss the technical feasibili~ of these reactors. Transmutation of minor actinide in b...

Minor Actinide Transmutation

Actinide Burning in a Standard Pressurized Water Reactor

This study investigates actinide burning in a standard lattice PWR. It assumes that after the first loading of depleted uranium, plutonium and minor actinides, only the fission products are removed and only depleted uranium and the plutonium/minor actinide mixture are added. The relative concentrations of plutonium and minor actinide feed are always maintained the same as PWR discharge fuel aft...

Minor Actinide Destruction in Dedicated Reactors

The neutronic performance of small size critical dedicated burners is investigated here according to the type of recycling performed (MA supply alone or together with some fissile element), the nature of the possible fissile supply (Pu, enriched U, U bred from Th), the coolant type (sodium or lead). The main neutronic parameters are given, such as reactivity coefficients, together with mass bal...

Present Status of Minor Actinide Data