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Preliminary study on plutonium and minor actinides utilization in thorims-nes minifuji reactor
Waris A.a, Richardina V.a, Aji I.K.a, Permana S.a, Su’Ud Z.a
a Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624529070653{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner layout=”boxed”][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1624695412187{border-right-width: 1px !important;border-right-color: #dddddd !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-radius: 1px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Abstract” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]Molten salt reactor (MSR) design has been chosen as one of the Generation IV nuclear energy systems, since it has many merits such as proliferation resistance, resource sustainability, and safety improvement. Recently, a concept which called as thorium molten salt nuclear energy synergetic (THORIMS-NES) was being proposed for the safe and sustainable nuclear industry. THORIMS-NES miniFUJI reactor is a small power MSR which originally considers Th/ 233U or Th/Pu as main fuel. In this study, the utilization of Pu and minor actinides (MA) in 25 MWth and 50 MWth miniFUJI reactors has been evaluated. The reactor grade plutonium and weapon grade plutonium are employed in the present study. The criticality for 25 MWth of miniFUJI can be accomplished by loading 8.76% of reactor grade Pu & MA (RGPuMA), and 3.96% of weapon grade Pu & MA (WGPuMA) in fuel, respectively. While, for that of 50 MWth, the reactor can attain its criticality with 9.16% and 4.36% of RGPuMA and WGPuMA, correspondingly. The neutron spectra become harder with the lower grade of fissile plutonium vector as well as the increasing of Pu and MA contents in loaded fuel salt. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Author keywords” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]Generation IV nuclear energy systems,MiniFUJI,Minor actinide,Molten salt reactor,MSR,Proliferation resistance,Resource sustainability,Thorium molten salts[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Indexed keywords” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]Criticality,MiniFUJI,Minor actinides,MSR,Reactor grade Pu,Weapon grade Pu[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Funding details” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]This study is supported by Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) Research Grant 2012 and Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture, DGHE Competitive Research Grant 2012.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”DOI” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2013.03.005[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]Widget Plumx[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]