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Let us discuss the radiation balance of a BREST-1200 reactor. The reactor is assumed to be<br />

running in an equilibrium state with U, Pu, Am and Np recycling in the fuel cycle and reactor madeup<br />

with natural uranium and Np and Am from three VVER-1000. Plutonium produced in VVERs,<br />

goes into the first cores of newly commissioned BREST reactors. Curium from BREST and VVER is<br />

stored for about 100 years until 243 Cm and 244 Cm decay into Pu isotopes. The resultant Pu is returned to<br />

the fuel cycle of BREST reactors. The contributions of individual species into PBH of irradiated fuel<br />

of BREST reactors are shown in Figure 3. In the time period from 40 to 10 5 years, PBH of BREST<br />

spent fuel is defined by Pu and Am. With the above recycling, when the bulk of U, Pu, Am, Np and<br />

Cm are recycled and transmuted and only 0.1% of them goes to waste, as well as 100% of other<br />

actinides and 5% of SR, Cs, Tc and I of those present in spent fuel, radiation equivalence between<br />

RW and source natural uranium can be reached after 180 years of storage (See Figure 4). If 100% of<br />

Cs and Sr are sent to RW, radiation equivalence can be struck in 350 years. The time needed to reach<br />

the balance depends on Cs and Sr decay. PBH of the waste is compared with PBH from 13.7 kg of<br />

natural uranium, which is actually the mass of U nat<br />

needed to produce in a thermal reactor 1 kg of fuel<br />

for the first core of BREST reactor. This value was defined taking into account that the first load<br />

would be recycled 12 times in the course of reactor lifetime, i.e. 60 years.<br />

Figure 3. Potential biological hazard (ingestion) of irradiated fuel from<br />

BREST-1200 rated for 1 kg of irradiated actinides (1.06 kg of nitride fuel)<br />

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