Advanced fuel cycles options for LWRs and IMF benchmark definition

Juraj Breza, Petr DARILEK, Vladimir NECAS, Slovakia, VUJE, Slovak University of Technology

18th Symposium of AER on VVER Reactor Physics and Reactor Safety (2008, Eger, Hungary)
Actinide Transmutation and Spent Fuel Disposal

Abstract

In the paper, different advanced nuclear fuel cycles including thorium-based fuel and inert-matrix fuel are examined under light water reactor conditions, especially VVER-440, and compared. Two investigated thorium based fuels include one solely plutonium-thorium based fuel and the second one plutonium-thorium based fuel with initial uranium content. Both of them are used to carry and burn or transmute plutonium created in the classical UOX cycle. The inert-matrix fuel consist of plutonium and minor actinides separated from spent UOX fuel fixxed in yttria-stabilised zirconia matrix.

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