Advances in applications of burnup credit to enhance spent fuel transportation, storage, reprocessing and disposition
Subtitle: proceedings of a technical meeting held in London, 29 August - 2 September 2005.
Contributors: Danker, W.; International Atomic Energy Agency.
Series: IAEA-TECDOC -- 1547.
Publisher: International Atomic Energy Agency
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Vienna
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9789201033079
Subjects: Fuel burnup (Nuclear engineering); Spent reactor fuels -- Transportation.; Spent reactor fuels -- Storage.; Reactor fuel reprocessing.; Spent reactor fuels -- Waste disposal.
Description: "Given a trend towards higher burnup power reactor fuel, the IAEA began an active program in burnup credit (BUC) with major meetings in 1997 (IAEA TECDOC Series No. 1013), 2000 (IAEA TECDOC Series No. 1241) and 2002 (IAEA TECDOC Series No. 1378) exploring worldwide interest in using BUC in spent fuel management systems. This publication contains the proceedings of the IAEA's 4th major BUC meeting, held in London. Sixty participants from 18 countries addressed calculation methodology, validation and criticality, safety criteria, procedural compliance with safety criteria, benefits of BUC applications, and regulatory aspects in BUC. This meeting encouraged the IAEA to continue its activities on burnup credit including dissemination of related information, given the number of Member States having to deal with increased spent fuel quantities and extended durations. A 5th major meeting on burnup credit is planned 2008."--Publisher.
Notes: "May 2007."

Errata inserted.

"The IAEA officer responsible for the organization of the meeting and overall coordination of this report was W. Danker"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Overview of topical presentations; title: 3. Overview on the burnup credit efforts by country; title: 4. Group discussions; title: International activities (sess. 1); title: Technical topics (sess. 2): Principles of choosing the calculation methodology with respect to the fuel design and the fuel management system; title: Nuclear data and validation of depletion and reactivity calculations; title: Criticality safety criteria; title: Procedural compliance with the safety criteria; title: Benefits of burn-up credit applications; title: Regulatory aspects in burnup credit.