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2014
SNA + MC 2013 - Joint International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications + Monte Carlo
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| Article Number | 05101 | |
| Number of page(s) | 2 | |
| Section | 5. Poster Session: a. Computational Nuclear Applications | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/snamc/201405101 | |
| Published online | 06 June 2014 | |
Utilization of Minor Actinides (Np, Am, Cm) in Nuclear Power Reactor
1 Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 25, Bolshaya Cheremushkinskaya ul., 117218 Moscow, Russia
2 National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, 31, Kashirskoye shosse, 115409 Moscow, Russia
* e-mail: geras-alexander@yandex.ru
Calculation research of the utilization process of minor actinides (transmutation with use of power released) is performed for specialized power reactor of the VVER type operating on the level of electric power of 1000 MW. Five subsequent cycles are considered for the reactor with fuel elements containing minor actinides along with enriched uranium. It was shown that one specialized reactor for the one cycle (900 days) can utilize minor actinides from several VVER-1000 reactors without any technological and structural modifications. Power released because of minor actinide fission is about 4% with respect to the total power
Key words: transmutation / minor actinides / power reactor / enriched uranium
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