Physics of Plutonium Recycling
Subtitle: Volume VI: Multiple Plutonium Recycling in Advanced PWRs
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Nuclear Energy Agency
Contributors: Nuclear Energy Agency
Series: Nuclear science; Nuclear Science
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9789264199583
Subjects: Nuclear energy
Description: Although the recycling of plutonium as thermal mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel in pressurised water reactors (PWRs) is now well-established on a commercial scale, many physics questions remain. The main question addressed in this report is the number of times plutonium can effectively be recycled in a PWR. This report describes in particular an exercise based on a realistic, multiple-recycle scenario, which followed plutonium through five generations of recycling in a PWR. It considered both a standard PWR design currently in use and a highly moderated design. The latter is a possible option for a dedicated, MOX-fuelled PWR in which it would be possible to optimise the moderation for plutonium. The study of these two designs in parallel has provided a better understanding of their relative merits, as well as insight into the limitations of multiple recycling and the long-term toxicity of fission products and actinides.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Contributors; title: Benchmark Participants; title: Executive Summary; title: Chapter 1. Introduction; title: Chapter 2. Benchmark Specification; title: Chapter 3. Participants and Methods; title: Chapter 4. Presentation of Results; title: Annex to Chapter 4: Energy per Reaction; title: Chapter 5. Discussion and Interpretation of Results; title: Chapter 6. Results of the Speical Benchmark on PWR MOX PIN Cells; title: Annex to Chapter 6 - Specifications of the new benchmark to compare MCNP, WIMS, APPOLLP2, CASM04, and SRAC; title: Annex to Chapter 6 - Effect of different state-of-the-art nuclear data libraries on the PWR MOX pin cells benchmark of Chapter 6; title: Chapter 7. Conclusions; title: Appendix A. Phase II Benchmark Specification; title: Appendix B. List of Participants; title: Appendix C. List of Symbols and Abbreviations; title: Appendix D. Corrigendum for Previous Volumes