U.S. Plans for the Next Fast Reactor Transmutation Fuels Irradiation Test.

Hilton, B. A.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Actinide nuclei;    Fast reactors;    Transmutation;    Alloys;    Americium;   

RP-ID  :  DE2008924521

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

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来源: National Technical Reports 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 disposal and the long-term radio-toxicity and heat load of high-level waste sent to a geologic repository. One important component of the technology development is actinide-bearing transmutation fuel forms containing plutonium, neptunium, americium (and possibly curium) isotopes. Metallic alloy and oxide fuel forms are being developed as the near term options for fast reactor implementation.