Proliferation resistance assessment of a typical pebble bed reactor fuel

Dany Mulyana; Sunil S. Chirayath

doi:10.1016/j.anucene.2021.108769

Proliferation resistance assessment of a typical pebble bed reactor fuel

Dany Mulyana, Sunil S. Chirayath

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Abstract

A study is carried out to assess the proliferation resistance (PR) of pebble bed reactor (PBR) fuel using two methods. The Proliferation Resistance Analysis and Evaluation Tool for Observed Risk (PRAETOR) code is the first method, which employs 68 attributes (intrinsic and extrinsic) to assess the overall PR. Forty-six uranium and plutonium diversion scenarios are analyzed with initial ²³⁵U enrichments from 4.95 to 17 wt% and a fuel burnup varying from 5 to 90 GWd/MTU. PRAETOR code gave same PR values (within 1%) for all the 46 scenarios and not able to distinguish between the uranium and plutonium diversion scenarios. A second PR analysis method employing only four attributes is developed and analyzes the intrinsic PR of plutonium spheres, which is able to distinguish the intrinsic PR of all the 23 plutonium diversion scenarios analyzed. Data needed for PR assessments are generated using neutronics simulations of PBR fuel irradiation.

Original language	English
Article number	108769
Journal	Annals of Nuclear Energy
Volume	165
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2021.108769
State	Published - Jan 2022
Externally published	Yes

Funding

This research is part of a graduate degree study partially funded by the Ministry of Research and Technology of Indonesia through a RisetPro fellowship and does not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

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Ministry of Research and Technology of Indonesia

Keywords

Multi-attribute utility analysis
PRAETOR
Pebble bed reactor
Proliferation resistance
Spent fuel diversion

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