@inproceedings{2d917b0d8c9c41328180d0e341f4fd65,
title = "Minor actinide recycle in sodium cooled fast reactors using heterogeneous targets",
abstract = "This paper investigates the plausible design of transmutation target assemblies for minor actinides (MA) in Sodium Fast Reactors (SFR). A heterogeneous recycling strategy is investigated, whereby after each reactor pass, un-burned MAs from the targets are blended with MAs produced by the driver fuel and additional MAs from Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF). A design iteration methodology was adopted for customizing the core design, target assembly design and matrix composition design. The overall design was constrained against allowable peak or maximum in-core performances. While respecting these criteria, the overall design was adjusted to reduce the total number of assemblies fabricated per refueling cycle. It was found that an inert metal-hydride MA-Zr-Hx target matrix gave the highest transmutation efficiency, thus allowing for the least number of targets to be fabricated per reactor cycle.",
keywords = "Heterogeneous recycle, Minor actinide, Moderated targets, Transmutation",
author = "Samuel Bays and Pavel Medvedev and Michael Pope and Rodolfo Ferrer and Mehdi Asgari and Benoit Forget",
year = "2009",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781615673513",
series = "American Nuclear Society - 4th Topical Meeting on Advances in Nuclear Fuel Management 2009, ANFM IV",
pages = "429--445",
booktitle = "American Nuclear Society - 4th Topical Meeting on Advances in Nuclear Fuel Management 2009, ANFM IV",
note = "American Nuclear Society - 4th Topical Meeting on Advances in Nuclear Fuel Management 2009, ANFM IV ; Conference date: 12-04-2009 Through 15-04-2009",
}