Publication: On plutonium-241 and americium in the twocomponent nuclear energy system
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2024
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Troyanov, V. M.
Gulevich, A. V.
Gurskaya, O. S.
Dekusar, V. M.
Eliseev, V. A.
Moseev, A. L.
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The paper deals with the influence of the strategy for using separated plutonium from spent fuel of thermal and fast reactors, as well as homogeneous burning of americium in the BN reactor core on the balance of americium in the Russian nuclear fuel cycle throughout the 21st century. The assessment is carried out with the use of athematical modeling of nuclear materials movement including nuclide transformations throughout the nuclear energy system based on the CYCLE code. Scenario modeling of the americium and Pu-241 accumulation was carried out in Russia’s two-component nuclear energy system model with thermal (VVER) and fast (BN) reactors. In so doing, spent nuclear fuel (SNF) reprocessing was simulated in 2 options: as priority eprocessing of SNF of VVER reactors (1) or SNF of BN reactors (2). In addition to americium accumulation in the system without burning, the accumulation of this actinide was studied taking into account its homogeneous burning in the MOX-fuel of fast reactors at the level of its equilibrium content of ~1%. It has been shown that the priority reprocessing of VVER spent fuel makes it possible to reduce the americium accumulation by the end of the century by ~8 tons, and the effect is achieved by using freshly separated plutonium with short-term cooling, thus, by priority the americium source is eliminated, without directly handling it. Homogeneous addition of americium to the fuel of fast reactors of the BN-1200 type at a level of ~1% makes it possible to stop accumulation of americium in a two-component energy system by 2070, tabilizing it at a level of ~40 tons in the scenario with priority reprocessing of VVER SNF and ~50 tons in the scenario with priority reprocessing of BN SNF.
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burning , americium , plutonium , spent nuclear fuel , fast reactor , modeling , two-component nuclear energy system
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Troyanov VM, Gulevich AV, Gurskaya OS, Dekusar VM, Eliseev VA, Moseev AL (2024) On plutonium-241 and americium in the two-component nuclear energy system. Nuclear Energy and Technology 10(4): 235–240. https://doi.org/10.3897/nucet.10.139467