A Neutronic Feasibility Study on the Recycling of an Oxide Fuel in a Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor

摘要

The results of the neutronic analysis showed that the recycling of an oxide fuel in an SFR is feasible if the fission products are removed by more than 70% through a dry process as far as the material balance is concerned. However the physics analysis has also shown that some of the physics design parameters are slightly deteriorated. The results of this study indicate that the recycling characteristics of the oxide fuel SFR can be improved if the dry process can remove more fission products from a spent fuel and the reactor configuration is further optimized.