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HELIUM-COOLED REACTOR TECHNOLOGIES FOR ACCELERATOR TRANSMUTATION OF NUCLEAR WASTE Alan Baxter, Carmelo Rodriguez, Matt Richards, Jozef Kuzminski General Atomics 2237 Trinity Drive, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA E-mail: Alan.Baxter@gat.com, Carmelo.Rodriguez@gat.com, Matt.Richards@gat.com, Kuzminski@gat.com Abstract Helium-cooled reactor technologies offer significant advantages in waste transmutation. They are ideally suited for use with fast, thermal or epithermal neutron energy spectra. They can provide a relatively hard thermal neutron spectrum for transmutation of fissionable materials such as 239 Pu using ceramic-coated particles, a graphite moderator, and a non-fertile burnable poison. These features (1) allow deep levels of transmutation with minimal or no intermediate reprocessing, (2) facilitate passive decay heat removal via heat conduction and radiation, (3) allow operation at relatively high temperatures for a highly efficient generation of electricity, and (4) discharge the transmuted waste in a form that is highly resistant to corrosion for long times. They also provide the hardest possible fast neutron environment since the helium coolant is essentially transparent to neutrons and does not degrade neutron energies. This facilitates transmutation of actinides that have low fission-to-capture ratios in the thermal neutron energy range. In this paper, we report work on the development of two concepts using helium-cooled reactor technologies for transmutation. Both concepts make use of thermal and fast energy spectra. One concept (thermal-fast) may be more attractive for transmutation of nuclear waste in a once-through mode, without reprocessing after initial removal of fertile uranium and fission products from the waste. It uses a single type of transmuter to eliminate essentially all weapons-useful material in the waste and achieve a significant reduction in total toxicity. It also has the potential to be economically attractive by generating substantial amounts of electricity. The other concept (two strata) may be more flexible and attractive to achieve deeper levels of transmutation. In this system, the thermally fissile isotopes are destroyed in a critical reactor operation in the passively safe Gas-Turbine Modular Helium Reactor, or GT-MHR, followed by a deep burn-up phase in an accelerator-driven GT-MHR. Then the discharge material is processed into fast reactor fuel, and irradiated in an accelerator driven Gas-Cooled Fast Assembly. The processing of the thermally irradiated fuel would not require burning off the graphite. Instead, fuel compacts would be mechanically extracted from the graphite fuel blocks, and the coated particles would be mechanically separated from the compact binder material. The particles would then be chemically processed to separate the remaining transuranics and produce fast reactor fuel. This is a similar process to that being considered for the multiple-pass liquid metal transmutation process. The gas-cooled fast assembly provides the hardest neutron spectrum for minor actinide transmutation, and hence, maximum transmutation per pass. This minimises the number of reprocessing steps required to reach a given degree of transmutation. 593
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Nuclear Development ACTINIDE AND FI
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FOREWORD The objective of the OECD/
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword ........
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY More than 160 par
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identified. In the fuel area, labor
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17:20-19:05 Session III: Partitioni
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Poster sessions Poster session: Par
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WELCOME ADDRESS Lucila Izquierdo Ge
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WELCOME ADDRESS Michel Hugon Co-ord
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WELCOME ADDRESS Philippe Savelli De
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developments. This will surely beco
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use of FBRs for transmutation toget
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view, i.e. better use of uranium an
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W. Forsberg proposes to reduce the
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1. From the open fuel cycle to the
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Figures 2 and 3 show the radiotoxic
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Denoting the transuranic (TRU) or m
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or, in terms of the fuel burn-up an
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quantities of LWR-MOX and FR-MOX wi
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view of the historic development, t
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Table 5. Assumptions for transmutat
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separating troublesome fission prod
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REFERENCES [1] L.H. Baetslé, Ch. D
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SESSION III Partitioning Chairs: J.
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OVERVIEW OF THE HYDROMETALLURGICAL
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2.1.3 Consequences Owing to the fac
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The extraction and separation mecha
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extractant was observed. As a conse
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2.3.2 Examples of strategies and
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3. Conclusions and perspectives 3.1
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SESSION IV Basic Physics, Materials
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TRANSMUTATION: A DECADE OF REVIVAL
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2.1 The IFR concept and the homogen
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2.3 Dedicated systems Making again
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compound “macro-dispersed” in M
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Figure 3. Sketch of ADS, liquid met
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3.3.2.1 The MEGAPIE project [40] ME
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3.3.2.2 The MUSE experiments The MU
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Figure 8. Comparison of the neutron
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Figure 9. Scenarios at equilibrium
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goals in this field. Since once-thr
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• The use of Thorium in PWRs alwa
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• Understanding of the role of AD
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[17] Y. Arai, T. Ogawa, Research on
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SESSION V Transmutation Systems and
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1. Introduction The term ADS compre
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• Safety should be “designed in
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3. Minor actinide and/or transurani
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Table 2. Values of Dj (neutron cons
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Table 4. Delayed neutron fraction I
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Figure 4. η (Neutrons released per
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Table 5. ADS Distinguishing feature
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While a favourable ADS safety featu
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Optimised mixes of MA and Pu can be
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Moreover, the fuel is where neutron
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REFERENCES [1] L. Van den Durpel et
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[19] D.C. Wade and E. Fujita, Trend
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POSTER SESSION Basic Physics: Nucle
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To conclude, this poster session in
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Five other papers related to ADS co
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SESSION I OVERVIEW OF NATIONAL AND
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1. Current activities for radioacti
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3.2 Results to date and analyses of
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3.2.5.2 JNC JNC is considering the
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4.6 Short-term increase in radiatio
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Annex 1 R&D scheme for partitioning
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Annex 3 Members of the Advisory Com
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plutonium can be recycled in pressu
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choices and the implementation of m
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1. Introduction Since the 5th Infor
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strata” approach which would invo
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IAEA ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA OF EMER
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actually started to do so) because
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establishment of an international R
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The accelerator driven transmutatio
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substantiate this recommendation, s
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current, advanced and innovative nu
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ACCELERATOR DRIVEN SUB-CRITICAL SYS
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demonstration of feasibility of a E
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An extended “skeleton” for ADS
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• Fertile support (uranium) is no
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7. Conclusions The TWG under the ch
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1. Introduction The priorities for
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In the EURATOM Fourth Framework Pro
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Table 2. Cluster on transmutation-t
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6. Community research for the perio
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REFERENCES [1] “Council Decision
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1. Introduction Back in 1989, the O
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would need the continuation of tech
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individual isotopes as a function o
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Therefore, while there is continuin
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[9] OECD/NEA, Overview of Physics A
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RECENT TOPICS IN R&D FOR THE OMEGA
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Figure 1. Partitioning and transmut
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The present 4-GPP necessitates a pr
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5. Concluding remarks In 1999, the
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REFERENCES [1] T. Mukaiyama, T. Tak
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1. Introduction CIEMAT is actively
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adiotoxicity to be managed could al
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Figure 3. Mass composition of the d
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Figure 6. Fuel cycle assumed in the
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the 4 batches scheme, allowing to a
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Figure 11. Transmutation efficiency
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1. Introduction Spent fuels of mode
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Figure 3. A change in radiotoxicity
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These dependencies are shown on Fig
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When increasing the moderator fract
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Even greater power increases are ob
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The effect of a moderator volume fr
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Table 11. Different isotopes contri
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Thus the transmutation of such FPs
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ASSESSMENT OF NUCLEAR POWER SCENARI
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elease probabilities. The time dist
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Table 2. Annual heavy nuclide contr
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Figure 3. Reduction of potential ra
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DISPOSAL OF PARTITIONING-TRANSMUTAT
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Figure 2. Decay heat from SNF 2000
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Figure 3. Shorter-lived HHR reposit
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4. Management of low-heat, long-liv
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isotope from other caesium isotopes
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THE AMSTER CONCEPT J. Vergnes 1 , D
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Figure 1. Layout diagram of the mol
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Table 1. Definition of configuratio
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We therefore adopted a partial purg
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conceivable. Thus by increasing the
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6. R&D needed to validate the AMSTE
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SESSION III PARTITIONING J.P. Glatz
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PARTITIONING-SEPARATION OF METAL IO
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The terpyridyl reagent (ligand L 1
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Figure 2. The synthesis of ADTPTZ a
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2.4 Implications for partitioning T
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SEPARATION OF MINOR ACTINIDES FROM
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installed in a hot cell. The feed w
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the concentrations of U, Pu and Np
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Table 2 shows the recovery in the r
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PARTITIONING ANIONIC AGENTS BASED O
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which of these, the Co 3+ , Fe 3+ a
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This dianionic species must be extr
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Figure 6 Ph 2 P acetone PPh 2 H2 O
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Figure 9 H 3 C RO(CH 2 )n CH 3 (CH
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[7] J. Rais and P. Selucky, Nucleon
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PYROCHEMICAL PROCESSING OF IRRADIAT
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The metallic cadmium product of the
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Figure 2. Schematic flow-sheet for
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R&D OF PYROCHEMICAL PARTITIONING IN
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(first of all pumps) for fluoride m
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4. Research on material and equipme
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REFERENCES [1] Uhlir J., Pyrochemic
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1. Introduction The increasing inte
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Figure 2. Stainless steel box with
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Figure 4. U deposit on solid cathod
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Figure 7. Schematic flow of the cou
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actinide elements from spent (metal
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DEVELOPMENT OF PLUTONIUM RECOVERY P
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uranium dendrite and that uranium c
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Table 1. Conditions and results of
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Cathode potential went down to -1.6
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Figure 6. Change of LCC potential i
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Figure 9. Relation between Pu conce
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consideration described in the prec
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[13] Y. Arai, S. Fukushima, K. Shio
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SESSION IV BASIC PHYSICS, MATERIALS
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1. Introduction The reduction of th
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agrees ours within limits of errors
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Figure 1. Thermal neutron capture c
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[18] A.P. Baerg, R.M. Bartholomew,
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1. Introduction Nowadays it is well
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In order to describe the inter-nucl
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kind of measurements allow to chara
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Figure 6. Two-dimensional cluster p
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Figure 8. Excitation functions for
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REFERENCES [1] D. Ridikas, thesis,
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1. Introduction Since 1991, the Com
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Experimental reactivity control tec
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Table 2. Neutron intensities Target
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experimental channels (horizontal a
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376
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Table 3. Planned experimental progr
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1. Introduction and benchmark speci
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neutrons. Since the neutron flux is
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Figure 2. Microscopic capture cross
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Figure 4. k eff variation in the st
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2.4 Neutron flux distribution One r
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etween the highest and the lowest v
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The isotope specific β eff values
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SESSION IV BASIC PHYSICS, MATERIALS
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1. Introduction Due to its excellen
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Figure 2. Tests scheme 0 340 h. 1 0
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Figure 4. Auger depth profile conce
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Figure 8. Auger depth profile conce
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deposited at the cold zone, and the
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inner layer grows inward from the o
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[8] V.M. Fedirko, O.I. Eliseeva, V.
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1. Introduction One of the main par
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3. Tantalum target irradiation The
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At 10-MeV neutron irradiation, radi
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1. Introduction HYPER (HYbrid Power
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this study, we used an orthogonal c
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Figure 5. Temperature distribution
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Figure 7. Thermal stress distributi
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FUEL/TARGET CONCEPTS FOR TRANSMUTAT
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(U 0.55 Pu 0.4 Np 0.05 )O 2 fuels w
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Figure 3. Left: Ceramograph of a (Z
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Figure 6. Left: ceramograph of a(Zr
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AMERICIUM TARGETS IN FAST REACTORS
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The reference case for all comparis
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It should be underlined that this c
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Cases Table 3. Heterogeneous recycl
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• A later step could be to add Cm
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RESEARCH ON NITRIDE FUEL AND PYROCH
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temperature for (Cm,Pu)N followed t
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Figure 1. Temperature dependence of
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The difference of two fuel pins exi
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In addition to the voltammetric stu
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2 wt% of Pu at 773 K. For the momen
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[13] M. Akabori, M. Takano, A. Itoh
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1. Introduction For the management
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The scientific feasibility of pluto
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Another option using a basis of sta
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6.2.1 Inert matrices 6.2.1.1 MgAl 2
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eached respectively 38.5% and 70% F
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Figure 4. Experiments for MA transm
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Figure 5a. Ecrix B rig Figure 5b. E
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A CEA/Minatom work programme is und
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9.3 Programme for dedicated fuels F
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[14] R.J.M. Konings et al., The EFT
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1. Introduction An accelerator driv
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corresponding Pb-Bi velocity is 1.1
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the fission product target. The rod
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fuel rods are at the TRU assembly t
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SESSION V TRANSMUTATION SYSTEMS AND
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1. Introduction Since the 50s, nitr
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A three dimensional model of a sub-
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Figure 4. Change in k-eigenvalue fo
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[4] Y. Arai et al., Experimental Re
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Nomenclature ADS: ATW: GT-MHR: LOF:
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Regarding switching off the beam, o
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Figure 3. Beam blocking 10 min (200
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Figure 7. A possible scenario for n
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[15] Greenspan E. et al., The Encap
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1. Introduction In the EADF design
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Equation (6) can be improved by con
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where L is obtained by a summation
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Figure 1. The natural convection im
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Figure 4 shows the temperature tren
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[12] P.H. Wakker, Thermal Hydraulic
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1. Introduction Research and develo
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Table 2. Core design parameters for
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2.2 Representation of MA transmutat
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Figure 1(b) shows the cases for the
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It is found that the higher MA tran
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REFERENCES [1] T. Ikegami, H. Hayas
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1. Introduction The management of t
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Table 1. Core performance of MA and
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Figure 3. Nuclear electricity capac
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Table 3. Experimental items at PEF
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Page 544 and 545: 1. Introduction and background The
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Page 552 and 553: A possible way to maintain the k ef
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Page 559 and 560: Figure 1. PBT conceptual view Table
Page 561 and 562: very tight holders for fission frag
Page 563 and 564: 5. Cooling system A preliminary des
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Page 569 and 570: hexagonal assemblies of 122 mm plat
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Page 588 and 589: 4.3 The core The basic fuel sub-ass
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Page 594 and 595: 1. Introduction Nuclear waste can b
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Page 604 and 605: characteristics of this direct (Bra
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Page 608 and 609: investigated. Most of the fuel in t
Page 611: POSTER SESSIONS 611
Page 615 and 616: STUDIES ON BEHAVIOUR OF SELENIUM AN
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Page 621 and 622: Table 2. Influence of aqueous acid
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2. Experimental 2.1 Synthesis and c
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Figure 3. Americium(III) extraction
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REFERENCES [1] OECD Nuclear Energy
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1. Introduction Nano- and micropart
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3. Selective removal of histidine-t
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Scheme 6. Formation of the macrocyc
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REFERENCES [1] M.D. Kaminski, and L
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NEW EXTRACTANTS FOR PARTITIONING OF
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of COSAN derivatives allowed for us
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On the other hand, all the above an
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All compounds presented above were
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INFLUENCE OF INTERMEDIATE CHEMICAL
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3. Natural or slightly enriched ura
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enrichment 1%, the burn-up grows 1.
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1. Introduction The final disposal
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Table 3. Calculated and experimenta
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Figure 2. General flow-sheet of Tot
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[10] J. Wang, B. Liu, J. Chen, C. S
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DESIGN AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE n
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The realisation of the present desi
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In the upper right corner of Figure
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Figure 3. Top view of the area wher
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y neutron reactions. The level reac
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The geometry of the beam dump propo
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REFERENCES [1] S. Abramovich et al.
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1. Introduction At the dawn of XXI
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The K parameter value, function of
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3. Experimental results The detecto
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Figure 7: Experimental (full line)
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Figure 9. ENDF/B-VI and JEF2.2 simu
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5. Conclusion The neutron capture c
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1. Experimental set-up The charged
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Figure 2. Preliminary results of do
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REFERENCES [1] Alford W.P. and Spic
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1. Introduction For many accelerato
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eam dump. We observe that the major
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INTERMEDIATE ENERGY NEUTRON-INDUCED
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2. Up-to-date status of the (n,f) c
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Figure 2. The 181 Ta(n,f), nat W(n,
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obtained more recently. It is seen
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REFERENCES [1] C. Rubbia, The Energ
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[20] P. Staples, P.W. Lisowski, and
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1. Introduction Nuclear fission of
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3. Results and perspectives On the
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Figure 4. Yields of U isotopes in t
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NEUTRON RADIATIVE CAPTURE CROSS-SEC
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15 µA. At the end of the proton be
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conditions with the minimum thermal
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only assumption of the code is that
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4. Conclusions The values of the ne
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DETERMINATION OF THE NEUTRON FISSIO
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Therefore, the neutron induced fiss
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Figure 2. Singles protons and deute
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Following the procedure proposed by
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1. Introduction The renewal interes
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Figure 3. Schematic view of a teles
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Figure 6. Calibration curves used f
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Figure 9. Proton spectrum before an
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this energy and the deuteron data o
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absolute values of proton spectra.
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1. Introduction The HINDAS project
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calculated. Moreover, the optical p
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Figure 2. The Berlin ball detector
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Finally, a new experimental techniq
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REFERENCES [1] S. Benck, I. Slypen,
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1. Introduction In Korea, an accele
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Figure 1. Configuration of the Pb-B
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3. Numerical results The performanc
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operation), respectively. This is b
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790 Figure 6. Normalised radial pow
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REFERENCES [1] W.S. Part et al., HY
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MA AND LLFP TRANSMUTATION IN MTRs A
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70 MW. The beryllium matrix has 79
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Table 1. Neutronic design parameter
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Table 3. Target-volume-averaged dir
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Only the fission process allows com
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amounts of MAs. In addition, one sh
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[9] E. Malambu, Progress Report on
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1. Introduction In the last years t
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4. Core with zirconium hydride in f
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Figure1. Reference reactor core Fig
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Table 4. Comparison of burn-up para
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8. Power distribution in the refere
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where P r is the reactor power, I p
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REMARKS ON KINETICS PARAMETERS OF A
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2. Sub-critical multiplication The
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Figure 2. Radial flux distribution
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Using such a traditional expression
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NOISE METHOD FOR MONITORING THE SUB
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And the descriptor used in noise an
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Figure 1. Amplitude versus frequenc
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As suggested by Uhrig [6], a method
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observed that the precision of the
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1. Introduction Last years importan
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eaches about 0.5% mole at a tempera
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3.2 Precipitation of oxides Althoug
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potentials that must be maintained
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Based on experimental data received
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COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE TRANS
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3.1 Reference configuration As in t
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if they are distributed exactly as
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From the perspective of the whole d
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Figure 5. Radial distribution of th
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Table 10. Transmutation rates (kg/T
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1. Introduction The concept of a hi
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underground, the radiation field ge
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REFERENCES [1] T. Iwamura et al., R
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Figure 2. Layout of deep undergroun
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1. Introduction The problem of the
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The data presented show that the ra
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1. Introduction The problem of the
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Table 3. Decay heat power of actini
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1. Scientific activity on ADS in wo
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4. Possible technical tasks on crea
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ON NECESSITY OF CREATION OF ACCELER
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Table 2. Transmutation of 99 Tc wit
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Another important problem concernin
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1. Introduction During the last yea
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Other original proposal of the indi
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Other original offer about sectiona
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concentration of lead in heavy wate
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[5] Kolesov V.P., Gughovski B.Ya.,
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CONDITIONS OF PLUTONIUM, AMERICIUM
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The further increase after 500 days
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decrease. Total actinide amount muc
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DEMONSTRATION ACCELERATOR DRIVEN CO
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Thus, stable nuclides will be forme
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Table 4. Characteristics of linac w
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1. Introduction Nuclear waste radio
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Figure 1. Lengthwise section view o
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Scenario S0. This is our reference
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Scenario 3 shows that mixing of was
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REFERENCES [1] International GT-MHR
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THE USE OF PB-BI EUTECTIC AS THE CO
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P d T = 6.0E+07, time at reactor fu
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The partial differential equations
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Figure 5. Core and heat exchanger p
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with the STAR-CD results is still t
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ONE WAY TO CREATE PROLIFERATION-PRO
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By supposing that FA manufacturing
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exponentially reduces with rather l
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Thus, 232 U generation by only one
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TRANSMUTATION OF LONG-LIVED NUCLIDE
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In the existing open fuel cycle, in
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then include 31% of Np, 66% of Am a
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Let us discuss the radiation balanc
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Higher requirements for the cleanin
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RW disposal is multibarrier configu
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