Download or read book Mixed Oxide Fuels Light Water Reactors Use of Recycled Plutonium written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Generic Environmental Statement Mixed Oxide Fuel written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Final Generic Environmental Statement on the Use of Recycle Plutonium in Mixed Oxide Fuel in Light Water Cooled Reactors written by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Technical Report on Effects of Plutonium Utilization on the Performance of Light Water Reactors written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Model Plutonium Recycle Reactors for Environmental Analysis of the Mixed oxide Fuel Cycle written by J. W. Wachter and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Final Generic Environmental Statement on the Use of Recycle Plutonium in Mixed Oxide Fuel in Light Water Cooled Reactors written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to the recovery of uranium and plutonium from spent fuel and their recycle as fuel to light water reactors (referred to in GESMO as the ''uranium and plutonium recycle'' option), two other major options exist for handling light water reactor spent fuel. In the ''uranium recycle'' option, only uranium would be recovered from spent fuel and recycled as fuel to LWR's. Plutonium and fission product wastes from the spent fuel would be converted into forms suitable for long term storage and disposal. In the ''no recycle'' option, considered in GESMO, no fissile materials would be recovered from spent fuel that would be the waste material requiring long term storage and disposal. This portion of the final GESMO analyzes the health, safety, and environmental impact costs and benefits of implementing any one of the three available options for the light water reactor fuel cycle: uranium and plutonium recycle, uranium recycle, and no recycle.

Download or read book Recycling of Plutonium written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Plutonium Recycling Scenario in Light Water Reactors written by and published by Harwood Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proposals Affecting Use of Plutonium as a Reactor Fuel written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Final Generic Environmental Statement on the Use of Recycle Plutonium in Mixed Oxide Fuel in Light Water Cooled Reactors Executive Summary written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of parametric studies of fuel cycle costs was made to determine the effect of nuclear growth rate, delays in start of widescale recycle, fuel cycle unit costs, the period of time covered, and discount rate on the difference in fuel cycle costs attributable to recycle of uranium and plutonium. The transfer of recovered plutonium from use as fuel in light water reactors to the liquid metal fast breeder program was also the subject of analysis. Detailed analyses were made of the fuel cycle costs for the five major fuel cycle alternatives. The effect of the fuel cycle options on the safety of light water reactors and fuel cycle facilities, and on the environmental impact of light water reactors are summarized.

Download or read book Light Water Reactor Fuel Reprocessing and Recycling written by United States. Energy Research and Development Administration and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Generic Environmental Statement Mixed Oxide Fuel written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mixed Oxide Fuel Generic EIS written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reduction of the Radiotoxicity of Spent Nuclear Fuel Using a Two Tiered System Comprising Light Water Reactors and Accelerator Driven Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two main issues regarding the disposal of spent nuclear fuel from nuclear reactors in the United States in the geological repository Yucca Mountain are: (1) Yucca Mountain is not designed to hold the amount of fuel that has been and is proposed to be generated in the next few decades, and (2) the radiotoxicity (i.e., biological hazard) of the waste (particularly the actinides) does not decrease below that of natural uranium ore for hundreds of thousands of years. One solution to these problems may be to use transmutation to convert the nuclides in spent nuclear fuel to ones with shorter half-lives. Both reactor and accelerator-based systems have been examined in the past for transmutation; there are advantages and disadvantages associated with each. By using existing Light Water Reactors (LWRs) to burn a majority of the plutonium in spent nuclear fuel and Accelerator-Driven Systems (ADSs) to transmute the remainder of the actinides, the benefits of each type of system can be realized. The transmutation process then becomes more efficient and less expensive. This research searched for the best combination of LWRs with multiple recycling of plutonium and ADSs to transmute spent nuclear fuel from past and projected nuclear activities (assuming little growth of nuclear energy). The neutronic design of each system is examined in detail although thermal hydraulic performance would have to be considered before a final system is designed. The results are obtained using the Monte Carlo burnup code Monteburns, which has been successfully benchmarked for MOX fuel irradiation and compared to other codes for ADS calculations. The best combination of systems found in this research includes 41 LWRs burning mixed oxide fuel with two recycles of plutonium (≈40 years operation each) and 53 ADSs to transmute the remainder of the actinides from spent nuclear fuel over the course of 60 years of operation.

Download or read book NUREG CR written by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plutonium Fuel written by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and published by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; [Washington, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Centre. This book was released on 1989 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plutonium for Energy written by Alan Kuperman and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutonium is a controversial fuel for three reasons: it can be used to make nuclear weapons, causes cancer, and is extremely costly to produce. Yet, relatively little information has been publicly available regarding the main use of this fuel around the world, in traditional ("light water") nuclear power reactors. This book offers the first comprehensive global study of plutonium "mixed oxide" (MOX) fuel in those reactors. Field research was conducted in all seven countries that have commercially manufactured or used such MOX: Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The chapters explain why five of the countries have decided to phase out MOX, due to concerns about security, economics, safety, the environment, and public acceptance. This volume should inform ongoing decision-making - in China, Japan, South Korea, the United States, and beyond - about whether to recycle plutonium for energy.