Physics of Plutonium Recycling : Volume VI: Multiple Plutonium Recycling in Advanced PWRs
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Nuclear Energy Agency
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.
Year of publication: |
2002
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Institutions: | OECD (contributor) ; Nuclear Energy Agency (contributor) ; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (contributor) |
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Paris : OECD Publishing |
Subject: | Kreislaufwirtschaft | Recycling | Kernbrennstoff | Nuclear fuel |
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