Utilization of Military Grade Plutonium in Generation-IV Gas Cooled Fast Reactor

被引：5
作者：
Ibrahim, Amr [1 ]
机构：
[1] High Inst Engn & Technol Obour, Cairo, Egypt
来源：
PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR ENERGY | 2021年 / 141卷
关键词：
Generation IV; Fast reactor; GFR2400; WGrPu; Plutonium; MCNPX; FUEL; TRANSMUTATION;
D O I：
10.1016/j.pnucene.2021.103984
中图分类号：
TL [原子能技术]; O571 [原子核物理学];
学科分类号：
0827 ; 082701 ;
摘要：
The operation of fast spectrum concepts like Gas cooled Fast Reactor (GFR) requires fuel with high enrichment of the fissile isotope Pu-239. In this work the utilization of Weapon Grade Plutonium (WGrPu) in GFR is investigated. For that, the transport code MCNPX is employed to design two models of the GFR2400 core one is heterogeneous and the other is homogeneous. The designed models are used to perform a neutronic analysis of the use of WGrPu as a fissile material instead of the reference Reactor Grade Plutonium (RGrPu) vector. The proposed WGrPu fuel has shown some improved neutronic and safety parameters compared to the reference RGrPu fuel.
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