Actinide Recycling in Light Water Reactors: Results of Reactor Physics Calculations

摘要

For the management of high level nuclear waste a new concept was explored involving the possibility of partitioning the by-product actinides and transmuting them into fission products. Previous reports gave the description of LWR (Light Water Reactor) codes used and preliminary results of the assessment studies for transmutation of by-product actinides in LWR's. Scope of this paper is now to give final results of the LWR calculations and the conclusions reached by the overall light water reactor physics study. Two different recycling schemes are investigated, involving recycling of only transplutonium isotopes or respectively all actinides, U, Pu, Am, and Cm. (Atomindex citation 13:672336)