Assessment of plutonium inventory management in the french nuclear fleet with the fuel cycle simulator CLASS
| Autor: | X. Doligez, Nicolas Thiollière, B. Mouginot, A.-A. Zakari-Issoufou, Baptiste Leniau, Marc Ernoult, Fanny Courtin, Jiali Liang |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées (SUBATECH), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
[PHYS.NUCL]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Theory [nucl-th] Fuel cycle 020209 energy Nuclear engineering chemistry.chemical_element 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences 7. Clean energy 010305 fluids & plasmas 0103 physical sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering General Materials Science Safety Risk Reliability and Quality Waste Management and Disposal MOX fuel business.industry Mechanical Engineering Actinide Nuclear power Incineration Plutonium Technical feasibility Nuclear Energy and Engineering chemistry Alternative energy Environmental science business |
| Zdroj: | Nucl.Eng.Des. Nucl.Eng.Des., 2021, pp.111042. ⟨10.1016/j.nucengdes.2020.111042⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0029-5493 |
| Popis: | International audience; The ASTRID French project aimed at designing, building and operating a sodium fast reactor cooled with liquid sodium. One of the goals of the project was to demonstrate the feasibility of the plutonium multi-recycling in a fast spectrum. Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA - Atomic & Alternative Energies Commission) has recently announced the abandon of the project which involves that no sodium fast reactor project is planned in France. As a consequence, there is a real interest in assessing technical feasibility for alternative plutonium management. In this work, the plutonium multi-recycling in PWR is assessed from fuel cycle simulations performed with the library CLASS developed by CNRS/IN2P3. The technical conditions for plutonium incineration and stabilization are investigated. It is shown that plutonium can be stabilized with 30% of PWR using multi-reprocessed plutonium in MOX fuel, the rest being composed by PWR loaded with UOX. The transuranic (plutonium and minor actinides) stabilization involves a plutonium incineration. For this reason, around 50% of PWR using multi-reprocessed plutonium is required and the nuclear power has to decrease. In this paper, the methodology and the output analysis are described in detail. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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