Enhancement Of Plutonium Proliferation Resistance By Transmutation Of Minor Actinide: Plutonium Denaturing By Decay Heat

摘要

The proliferation resistant can be enhanced by increasing the decay heat of plutonium, for example, by increasing of ~(238)Pu produced by the transmutation of Minor Actinides (MA). In the present paper, the fundamentals of plutonium denaturing by decay heat of plutonium is discussed based on the temperature profile of the simple devise model. The effect of Protected Plutonium Production (P~3) by the transmutation of Minor Actinides1'2 on the plutonium denaturing by decay heat is also demonstrated.