Disposition of weapons-grade plutonium in Westinghouse reactors /
annular burnable absorber (WABA) rods were used in all the
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | annular burnable absorber (WABA) rods were used in all the are comparable to those of LEU cores including boron levels, assemblies. Integral fuel burnable absorber (IFBA) was used cycles from an all LEU core to a partial MOX core. We found discharge burnup of MOX assemblies was over 47,000 MWD/MTM, enrichments per assembly and four enrichments total. Wet feed and some burned MOX assemblies and some LEU feed in the rest of the LEU feed assemblies. The average margins. Further transient analyses need to be performed. MOX loading without any modifications. We have also designed One unit is capable of consuming 0.462 MT of weapons-grade plant are capable of handling up to 45 percent weapons-grade plutonium a year. Preliminary analyses showed that important plutonium in the form of mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel in existing reactivity coefficients, peaking factors, and shutdown reactor physics parameters for the three transitions cycles that four-loop Westinghouse reactors such as the Vogtle power two kinds of weapons-grade MOX assemblies with three We have studied the feasibility of using weapons-grade Westinghouse reactors. We have designed three transition which is more than enough to meet the "spent fuel standard." |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Nuclear Engineering". "This thesis was prepared with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy(DOE), Cooperative Agreement Number DE-FC04-95AL85832...This work was conducted through the Amarillo National Resource Center for Plutonium"--p.iv. Vita. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 65 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references: pages 63-64. |