AFCI Fuel Irradiation Test Plan, Test Specimens AFC-1Æ and AFC-1F

Crawford, D. C. ; Hayes, S. L. ; Hilton, B. A. ; Meyer, M. K. ; Ambrosek, R. G. ; Chang, G. S. ; Utterbeck, D. J.

Idaho National Laboratory

关键词: 73 - Nuclear Physics And Radiation Physics;    Plutonium;    Irradiation;    Curium;    Neptunium;   

DOI  :  10.2172/910603
RP-ID  :  INEEL/EXT-03-01362
RP-ID  :  DE-AC07-99ID-13727
RP-ID  :  910603

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The U. S. Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative (AFCI) seeks to develop and demonstrate the technologies needed to transmute the long-lived transuranic actinide isotopes contained in spent nuclear fuel into shorter-lived fission products, thereby dramatically decreasing the volume of material requiring disposition and the long-term radiotoxicity and heat load of high-level waste sent to a geologic repository (DOE, 2003). One important component of the technology development is actinide-bearing transmutation fuel forms containing plutonium, neptunium, americium (and possibly curium) isotopes. There are little irradiation performance data available on non-fertile fuel forms, which would maximize the destruction rate of plutonium, and low-fertile (i.e., uranium-bearing) fuel forms, which would support a sustainable nuclear energy option. Initial scoping level irradiation tests on a variety of candidate fuel forms are needed to establish a transmutation fuel form design and evaluate deployment of transmutation fuels.