Present Status of Minor Actinide Data

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...

Alkali metal actinide complex halides : thermochemical and structural considerations

— The present status of our information on the thermodynamics of the actinide halogeno-complexes with alkali metal ions is reviewed, with special emphasis on chloroand bromo-derivatives. Where enough thermodynamic and structural data are available, attempts are made to deduce the evolution of the energetics of the actinide-halogen bonds along a series of isomorphous or analogous compounds. The ...

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

SESSION III Present and Future Synchrotron Facilities for Radionuclide Studies

The vacuum ultraviolet (VUV)/soft X-ray region of the synchrotron radiation (SR) spectrum has revolutionised the approach to surface materials chemistry/physics. This spectral region has long been recognised for its potential to afford investigations of fundamental actinide science and to provide an improved analytical surface characterisation capabilities for actinide materials. Previously, th...