The feasibility of employing inert matrix ceramic fuels in a Russian light water reactor

Baranaev, Yu.D.; Попов, В. В.; Шарапов, В. Н.; Troyanov, V. M.

doi:10.1016/s0022-3115(03)00211-3

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“…Er is considered as the primary BA, experimental verification was performed in Switzerland (Paratte et al, 1999) and the US (Holliday et al, 2009) with calculation studies. The Russian study (Baranaev et al, 2003) prefers Gd as a BA material.…”

Section: Materials In Advanced Fuel Conceptsmentioning

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Increasing efficiency of nuclear fuel using burnable absorbers

Lovecký

Závorka

Jiřičková

et al. 2020

Progress in Nuclear Energy

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The paper describes the development, validation, and use of U W B 1 code intended for fast calculation of nuclear fuel depletion in burnable absorber research. The degree of effectiveness of burnable absorbers in the form of natural abundance elements, nuclides, and their combinations are compared on metric evaluating characteristic properties of burnable absorbers; namely the initial reactivity compensation, residual poisoning minimization, and the influence of the fuel reactivity for higher fuel burnups. The following materials suitable for burnable absorbers are recommended: Li, Pa, Ir, In and Re, as well as perspective of Li-6 enrichment; beside previously commonly studied boron and rare earth metals. The research results are intended for the application in other technical-economical analyses of the selection of added materials in the nuclear fuel for increasing the fuel efficiency and nuclear safety.

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Section: Materials In Advanced Fuel Conceptsmentioning

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Increasing efficiency of nuclear fuel using burnable absorbers

Lovecký

Závorka

Jiřičková

et al. 2020

Progress in Nuclear Energy

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“…Pistner et al 38 estimated by neutronics calculations the impact of burnable poisons on the safety of inert matrix fuel. Baranaev et al 39 considered the role of burnable poisons for assessing the feasibility of employing inert matrix ceramic fuels in a Russian light water reactor. Porta et al 40 contributed to the qualification of erbium neutronic efficiency at zero burnup.…”

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Nuclear fuel in generation II and III reactors: research issues related to high burn-up

Degueldre

Bertsch

Kuri

et al. 2011

Energy Environ. Sci.

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“…The corrosion behavior of aluminum-clad fuels in light water reactor environments was improved by the use of SILUMIN (aluminum-silicon alloy) (3). This alloy has a number of remarkable technological and operational properties (4). Boron is used in aluminum alloys for certain atomic energy applications, but its content has to be restricted to very low levels in alloys used in reactor areas (5).…”

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Trace Determination of Boron in Uranium-Aluminum-Silicon and Aluminum- Silicon-Nickel (SILUMIN) Alloys by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES)

Thangavel¹,

Arunachalam²

2012

At.Spectrosc.

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A novel and simple matrix separation method has been developed for the trace level determination of boron in uranium-aluminum-silicon and aluminum-silicon-nickel (SILUMIN) alloys using inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES). The samples were digested by HF/HF-HNO 3 in the presence of mannitol to form the boron-mannitol complex. The sample solution was evaporated to dryness on a water bath and treated with ethanol to selectively extract the boron-mannitol complex from the solid residue of the matrix. The ethanol fraction containing the boron-mannitol complex was separated, evaporated to dryness, taken in water, and measured by ICP-AES. The limit of detection was found to be 0.270 mg kg-1. The matrix removal was around 99.5%, the recovery of boron for 80-450 ng was in the 93-96% range. The analytical results of boron in U-Al-Si matrices (0.40-1.10 mg kg-1) agreed well with existing spectrophotometric methods at ± 4% variation.

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The feasibility of employing inert matrix ceramic fuels in a Russian light water reactor

Cited by 10 publications

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Increasing efficiency of nuclear fuel using burnable absorbers

Increasing efficiency of nuclear fuel using burnable absorbers

Nuclear fuel in generation II and III reactors: research issues related to high burn-up

Trace Determination of Boron in Uranium-Aluminum-Silicon and Aluminum- Silicon-Nickel (SILUMIN) Alloys by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES)

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