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MA AND LLFP TRANSMUTATION IN MTRs AND ADSs:<br />

THE TYPICAL SCK•CEN CASE OF TRANSMUTATIONS<br />

IN BR2 AND MYRRHA. POSITION WITH RESPECT TO THE GLOBAL NEEDS<br />

Ch. De Raedt, B. Verboomen, Th. Aoust, E. Malambu, A. Beeckmans de West-Meerbeeck,<br />

P. Kupschus, Ph. Benoit, H. Aït Abderrahim, L.H. Baetslé<br />

SCK•CEN, Boeretang 200, 2400 – Mol, Belgium<br />

E-mail: cdraedt@sckcen.be<br />

Abstract<br />

The proposed paper indicates the performances, in the domain of the transmutation of MAs and<br />

LLFPs, of the high flux materials testing reactor BR2 located at SCK•CEN, and compares them with<br />

those of the multipurpose ADS MYRRHA, the pre-design of which is at the present time being<br />

finalized at SCK•CEN. With thermal neutron fluxes reaching 9 10 14 n/cm 2 s in thermal positions and<br />

4 10 14 n/cm 2 s in the reactor core and, in the latter position, a fast flux (E>0.1MeV) of 7 10 14 n/cm 2 s,<br />

BR2 has a transmutation throughput of the order of 1.5 kg Np+Am per 200 EFPD. This capacity can<br />

be used for investigating at the technological scale the transmutation of MAs and LLFPs in a thermal<br />

neutron spectrum with a high contribution of epithermal and fast neutrons. The metallurgical<br />

behaviour of the targets can hence be studied. In MYRRHA, higher fast fluxes are expected to be<br />

attained in irradiation positions near the spallation source, viz fast fluxes (E>0.75 MeV) up to<br />

10 15 n/cm 2 s. One of the purposes of MYRRHA is therefore its utilisation for the investigation of<br />

actinide transmutation feasibility with ADSs.<br />

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