Abstract
The destruction of long lived minor actinide isotopes generated in irradiated nuclear fuel by transmutation in fast reactors is a goal of the US DOE Fuel Cycle Research & Development program Transmutation would dramatically decrease the volume of material requiring disposal and reduce the longer-term radiotoxicity and heat load of high-level waste sent to a geologic repository [1, 2]. In an effort to better understand the fuel performance implications of adding minor actinides to a fuel system, the Advanced Fuel Cycle (AFC) experiments examine the performance of metallic, nitride, and ceramic fuels in approximated fast reactor neutron spectra at the Idaho National Laboratory Advanced Test Reactor. In addition and complementary to ATR testing, systematic characterization of experiments irradiated in true fast reactors are performed in order to assess ATR in qualifying fast reactor fuel. For this purpose postirradiation examination are performed on X501 experiment, a unique metallic fuel with addition of minor actinides irradiated in EBR-II.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 594-595 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Transactions of the American Nuclear Society |
| Volume | 117 |
| State | Published - 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2017 Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, ANS 2017 - Washington, United States Duration: Oct 29 2017 → Nov 2 2017 |
Funding
This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy. The authors would also like to acknowledge the staff of the INL Hot Fuel Examination Facility.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| U.S. Department of Energy | |
| Office of Nuclear Energy | |
| Idaho National Laboratory |