LOW ENRICHED URANIUM FUEL CYCLE IN HIGH TEMPERATURE GAS-COOLED REACTORS

摘要

A high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) is well known to have many advantages such as uranium resource saving, low environmental impact, high inherent safety. A strong attention has been paid in Japan to a unique possibility of applying HTCR to process heat.nThe Pu production which is characteristic of the LEU fuel cycle, should be assessed from the viewpoint of efficient utilization of Pu, since the Pu recycle is essential to saving nuclear resources in atomic power deployment.