Evaluation of Feed Requirements and Costs Analysis of Preirradiated Fuel Cycle Operations for Uranium Fuelled Light Water Reactors

摘要

This work is a part of an integrated scheme for nuclear power cost evaluation. The paper gives a brief description of the different operations included to get enriched UO sub 2 in its final form. A Material Balance Sheet is developed to estimate quantitatively the input material requirements to each fuel operation. An improved approach for fuel cost analysis is developed. The paper includes a complete FORTRAN listing for the computer program carried out for this purpose together with description of the program input data requirements and output facilities. Illustrative numerical results are provided. (Atomindex citation 17:023247)