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CONDITIONS OF PLUTONIUM, AMERICIUM AND<br />

CURIUM TRANSMUTATION IN NUCLEAR FACILITIES<br />

A.S. Gerasimov, G.V. Kiselev, L.A. Myrtsymova, T.S. Zaritskaya<br />

State Scientific Centre of the Russian Federation<br />

Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (RF SSC ITEP)<br />

25, B. Cheremushkinskaya, 117259 Moscow, Russian Federation<br />

Abstract<br />

Weapon-grade plutonium burning and transmutation of the americium and curium isotopes from<br />

spent nuclear fuel in reactor or accelerator-driven installations with various neutron fluxes and spectra<br />

are analysed. The concentration of the nuclides up to 248 Cm and the radiotoxicity are calculated. The<br />

problem of plutonium burning and minor actinides transmutation is that the radiotoxicity is increased<br />

in the beginning of irradiation, and only after a period it decreases to the initial value.<br />

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