Deep-Burn: making nuclear waste transmutation practical

Rodriguez, C.; Baxter, A.; McEachern, D.W.; Fikani, M. M.; Venneri, Francesco

doi:10.1016/s0029-5493(03)00034-7

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“…T he guideline f or f ast fluence limita tions is a pproximately 10 26 n/m 2 [51,52,53]. The cal culated fast f luence l evels f or t he V HTR ( neutron energies greater t han 0.1 M eV) ar e between 5.2x10 21 and 1.6x10 22 n/cm 2 .…”

Section: Criteria Preference Methodsmentioning

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High fidelity nuclear energy system optimization towards an environmentally benign, sustainable, and secure energy source.

Tsvetkov

Rodríguez²,

Ames

et al. 2009

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Approved for public release; further dissemination unlimited. 2Issued by S andia N ational Laboratories, operated for the U nited States D epartment o f E nergy b y Sandia Corporation. NOTICE:This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. N either t he U nited S tates Government, n or an y a gency t hereof, n or an y o f their e mployees, nor a ny of t heir c ontractors, s ubcontractors, or t heir e mployees, m ake an y warranty, e xpress or i mplied, or a ssume a ny l egal l iability or responsibility for t he a ccuracy, completeness, or us efulness of a ny i nformation, a pparatus, pr oduct, or process di sclosed, or represent t hat its us e would not infringe pr ivately owned r ights. R eference h erein t o an y s pecific commercial p roduct, p rocess, o r s ervice b y t rade n ame, t rademark, m anufacturer, o r o therwise, does not ne cessarily c onstitute or i mply i ts e ndorsement, r ecommendation, or f avoring b y t he United States Government, any agency thereof, or any of their contractors or subcontractors. T he views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government, any agency thereof, or any of their contractors.Printed i n the U nited S tates o f America. This r eport has b een r eproduced d irectly from t he b est available copy. AbstractA new hi gh-fidelity i ntegrated s ystem m ethod a nd a nalysis approach w as de veloped a nd implemented f or c onsistent a nd c omprehensive evaluations of a dvanced f uel c ycles l eading t o minimized T ransuranic ( TRU) inventories. T he method ha s be en i mplemented i n a de veloped code system integrating capabilities of Monte Carlo N -Particle Extended (MCNPX) for highfidelity fuel cycle component simulations.In this report, a Nuclear Energy System (NES) configuration was developed to take advantage of used fuel r ecycling and t ransmutation capabilities i n waste m anagement s cenarios l eading t o minimized TRU waste inventories, long-term activities, and radiotoxicities. The reactor systems and f uel cycle components t hat m ake up the NES w ere s elected f or t heir abi lity t o perform i n tandem to produce clean, safe, and dependable energy in an environmentally conscious manner. The di versity i n performance and spectral ch aracteristics w ere us ed to enhance T RU w aste elimination while e fficiently ut ilizing ur anium resources a nd p roviding a n a bundant energy source.A computational modeling approach was developed for integrating the individual models of the NES. A general approach was ut ilized allowing for t he Integrated S ystem M odel ( ISM) t o be modified in order to provide s imulation for ot her s ystems w ith similar a ttributes. B y ut ilizing this approach, the ISM is capable of performing system evaluations under many different design parameter opt ions. A dditionally, t he p redictive capabilities of the ISM a nd its c omputational time e fficiency a llow f or s ystem s ensitivity/uncertainty a nalysis a nd the impl...

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Section: Criteria Preference Methodsmentioning

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High fidelity nuclear energy system optimization towards an environmentally benign, sustainable, and secure energy source.

Tsvetkov

Rodríguez²,

Ames

et al. 2009

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“…The spent fuel integrity of TRISO fuel with plutonium oxide kernel with high burn-up of 747 GWd/t (Peach Bottom Unit 1) was confirmed by GA [5]. Moreover, the fuel design and fuel particle (SiC Layer) failure fraction for Deep Burn is evaluated by GA with high burn-up of 700 GWd/t and operation conditions, including high fluence irradiation [23], and the integrity was successfully assessed.…”

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“…On the contrary, the TRISO fuel shows integrity for a long time over one million years. Even after one million years, the failure fraction of fuel particles is predicted [5] to be approximately 0.01%. Moreover, the chemical stability of YSZ is also expected to contribute to the safety in the geological repository.…”

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Proposal of a plutonium burner system based on HTGR with high proliferation resistance

Fukaya

Goto

Ohashi

et al. 2014

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

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“…Besides, the porous material in the TRISO particles facilitates the storage of big quantities of fission products and enables the system to reach higher burnups, in the order of 740 MWd/Kg (Rodriguez et al, 2003) and can afford a temperature of 1600 °C. In a repository environment, spent TRISO particles should maintain their integrity for millions of years, even if they would permanently be flooded with groundwater.…”

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“…The behavior in PBT of the spent fuel management strategy, proposed by (Tálamo et al, 2004, Rodriguez et al, 2003 for the so called Deep Burn Modular Helium Reactor (DB-MHR) are analyzed. Three strategies for fuel management are compared: first of all, the traditional one, named "spent fuel"(SF) that uses spent fuel from LWR Second, the one in which the transuranic elements are divided in two groups, a "Driven Fuel" (DF) composed only by Plutonium isotopes and Np is used in PBT core like SF, and third, the fuel management strategy in which after the DF has reached the stationary state we feed PBT core with a layer of "Transmutation Fuel" (TF), composed by Am 241 , Am 243 and Cm 244 isotopes from spent DF and it is mixed after discharge from the reactor core with the Am and Cm isotopes, which were set-aside after UREX process (Laidler et al, 2001).…”

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Performance of a transmutation advanced device for sustainable energy application

Garcı́a

Rosales

García

et al. 2011

Progress in Nuclear Energy

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Keywords:Very high temperature reactor Nuclear waste Transmutation Preliminary studies have been performed to design a device for nuclear waste transmutation and hydrogen generation based on a gas-cooled pebble bed accelerator driven system, TADSEA (Transmutation Advanced Device for Sustainable Energy Application). In previous studies we have addressed the viability of an ADS Transmutation device that uses as fuel wastes from the existing LWR power plants, encapsulated in graphite in the form of pebble beds, cooled by helium which enables high temperatures (in the order of 1200 K), to generate hydrogen from water either by high temperature electrolysis or by thermochemical cycles. For designing this device several configurations were studied, including several reflectors thickness, to achieve the desired parameters, the transmutation of nuclear waste and the production of 100 MW of thermal power. In this paper new studies performed on deep burn in-core fuel management strategy for LWR waste are presented. The fuel cycle on TADSEA device has been analyzed based on both: driven and transmutation fuel that had been proposed by the General Atomic design of a gas turbine-modular helium reactor. The transmutation results of the three fuel management strategies, using driven, transmutation and standard LWR spent fuel were compared, and several parameters describing the neutron performance of TADSEA nuclear core as the fuel and moderator temperature reactivity coefficients and transmutation chain, are also presented.

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Deep-Burn: making nuclear waste transmutation practical

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High fidelity nuclear energy system optimization towards an environmentally benign, sustainable, and secure energy source.

High fidelity nuclear energy system optimization towards an environmentally benign, sustainable, and secure energy source.

Proposal of a plutonium burner system based on HTGR with high proliferation resistance

Performance of a transmutation advanced device for sustainable energy application

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