Final Report for the NERI Project

John C. Lee

关键词: ALGORITHMS;    FUEL CYCLE;    OPTIMIZATION;    PERFORMANCE Transmutation;    fuel cycle;    transuranics;   

DOI  :  10.2172/950501
RP-ID  :  FinalRept.14651
PID  :  OSTI ID: 950501
Others  :  TRN: US0902121

学科分类：核能源与工程

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

This final report summarizes the research activities during the entire performance period of the NERI grant, including the extra 9 months granted under a no-cost time extension. Building up on the 14 quarterly reports submitted through October 2008, we present here an overview of the research accomplishments under the five tasks originally proposed in July 2004, together with citations for publications resulting from the project. The AFCI-NERI project provided excellent support for two undergraduate and 10 graduates students at the University of Michigan during a period of three years and nine months. Significant developments were achieved in three areas: (1) Efficient deterministic fuel cycle optimization algorithms both for PWR and SFR configurations, (2) Efficient search algorithm for PWR equilibrium cycles, and (3) Simplified Excel-based script for dynamic fuel cycle analysis of diverse cycles. The project resulted in a total of 8 conference papers and three journal papers, including two that will be submitted shortly. Three pending publications are attached to the report.