Nitride Fuel and Pyrochemical Process Developments for Transmutation of Minor Actinides in Jaeri
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The Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) has proposed the concept of the transmutation of minor actinides (MA: Np, Am and Cm) with accelerator-driven systems (ADS), where MA nitride is adopted as a fuel material of a sub-critical core, because nitride fuel has the advantage of accommodating various MAs with a wide range of composition besides superior thermal and neutronic properties. In this paper, the present status of study on fabrication, property measurements, irradiation test and pyrochemical process of nitride fuels in JAERI is presented.
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