Resolution of Proliferation Issues for a Sodium Fast Reactor Blanket
Breeding blankets are of interest for a sodium fast reactor (SFR) as they allow for small cores to have positive breeding gains. However, because they breed very high-quality plutonium, core designers are not currently encouraged to employ blankets. After verifying that the ERANOS code was in good a...
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| author | Stauff, Nicolas Driscoll, Michael J Forget, Benoit Robert Yves Hejzlar, Pavel |
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| description | Breeding blankets are of interest for a sodium fast reactor (SFR) as they allow for small cores to have positive breeding gains. However, because they breed very high-quality plutonium, core designers are not currently encouraged to employ blankets. After verifying that the ERANOS code was in good agreement with BGcore, a Monte Carlo-based depletion system, it was shown that an SFR blanket design could breed less attractive plutonium than light water reactor (LWR)-bred plutonium for making a nuclear explosive device. Minor actinide (MA) doping and moderator addition were the two options studied. This study shows that it is possible to build an SFR with a secure blanket with MA addition; at steady state MAs from approximately 1.5 LWRs are required per SFR [both rated at 1 GW(electric)]. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1093222022-09-29T18:09:57Z Resolution of Proliferation Issues for a Sodium Fast Reactor Blanket Stauff, Nicolas Driscoll, Michael J Forget, Benoit Robert Yves Hejzlar, Pavel Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Stauff, Nicolas Driscoll, Michael J Forget, Benoit Robert Yves Hejzlar, Pavel Breeding blankets are of interest for a sodium fast reactor (SFR) as they allow for small cores to have positive breeding gains. However, because they breed very high-quality plutonium, core designers are not currently encouraged to employ blankets. After verifying that the ERANOS code was in good agreement with BGcore, a Monte Carlo-based depletion system, it was shown that an SFR blanket design could breed less attractive plutonium than light water reactor (LWR)-bred plutonium for making a nuclear explosive device. Minor actinide (MA) doping and moderator addition were the two options studied. This study shows that it is possible to build an SFR with a secure blanket with MA addition; at steady state MAs from approximately 1.5 LWRs are required per SFR [both rated at 1 GW(electric)]. 2017-05-24T19:24:34Z 2017-05-24T19:24:34Z 2010-06 2009-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0029-5450 1943-7471 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109322 Stauff, N. E.; Driscoll, M. J.; Forget, B. and Hejzlar, P. “Resolution of Proliferation Issues for a Sodium Fast Reactor Blanket.” Nuclear Technology 170, no. 3 (June 2010): 371-382 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2919-2312 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1459-7672 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1715-3735 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.13182/NT10-1 Nuclear Technology Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf American Nuclear Society Prof. Forget via Chris Sherratt |
| spellingShingle | Stauff, Nicolas Driscoll, Michael J Forget, Benoit Robert Yves Hejzlar, Pavel Resolution of Proliferation Issues for a Sodium Fast Reactor Blanket |
| title | Resolution of Proliferation Issues for a Sodium Fast Reactor Blanket |
| title_full | Resolution of Proliferation Issues for a Sodium Fast Reactor Blanket |
| title_fullStr | Resolution of Proliferation Issues for a Sodium Fast Reactor Blanket |
| title_full_unstemmed | Resolution of Proliferation Issues for a Sodium Fast Reactor Blanket |
| title_short | Resolution of Proliferation Issues for a Sodium Fast Reactor Blanket |
| title_sort | resolution of proliferation issues for a sodium fast reactor blanket |
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