Plant Design and Cost Assessment of Forced Circulation Lead-Bismuth Cooled Reactor with Conventional Power Conversion Cycles by Dostal, Vaclav, Hejzlar, Pavel, Todreas, Neil E., Kazimi, Mujid S.

“…This report makes an assessment of power generation of the Actinide Burner Reactor (MABR). The reactor is a fast reactor cooled by lead bismuth eutectic. …”
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SUPERFACT: A Model Fuel for Studying the Evolution of the Microstructure of Spent Nuclear Fuel during Storage/Disposal by Thierry Wiss, Oliver Dieste, Emanuele De Bona, Alessandro Benedetti, Vincenzo Rondinella, Rudy Konings

“…The transmutation of minor actinides (in particular, Np and Am), which are among the main contributors to spent fuel α-radiotoxicity, was studied in the SUPERFACT irradiation. …”
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Uranium-Doped Zinc, Copper, and Nickel Oxides for Enhanced Catalytic Conversion of Furfural to Furfuryl Alcohol: A Relativistic DFT Study by Shuang Li, Yu-Chang Hou, Yuan-Ru Guo, Qing-Jiang Pan

“…Transition metal oxides (TMOs) and actinide ones (AnOs) have been widely applied in catalytic reactions due to their excellent physicochemical properties. …”
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Post-Closure Safety Analysis of Nuclear Waste Disposal in Deep Vertical Boreholes by Stefan Finsterle, Richard A. Muller, John Grimsich, Ethan A. Bates, John Midgley

“…The impact of these processes on the transport of select radionuclides is studied, which include long-lived, soluble, sorbing or highly mobile isotopes along with a decay chain of safety-relevant actinide metals. The generic analyses suggest that a deep vertical borehole repository has the potential to be a safe option for the disposal of certain waste streams, with the depth itself and the stable hydrogeological environment encountered in the emplacement zone providing inherent long-term isolation, which allows for reduced reliance on a complex engineered barrier system.…”
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Engineered mineralogical interfaces as radionuclide repositories by G. B. Douglas, S. M. Reddy, D. W. Saxey, C. M. MacRae, N. A. S. Webster, L. J. Beeching

“…Abstract Effective capture of fugitive actinides and daughter radionuclides constitutes a major remediation challenge at legacy or nuclear accident sites globally. …”
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Radioactive product analysis of a small molten-salt reactor in primary loop by ZHOU Weilong, YAN Rui, ZHOU Bo

“…The total radioactivity of actinide nuclides is about 1.47×1018 Bq, of which the 239Np accounts for 98%.ConclusionsThis study provides reference for radiation protection design and fuel reprocessing scheme of molten salt reactor.…”
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Analysis of reusability of ThO2 and spent UO2 fuels enriched with ads in a CANDU reactor by Durmaz Busra, Bakir Gizem, Arslan Bugra Alper, Yapici Huseyin

“…The study presents the analysis of the reusability of ThO2 and spent UO2 fuels enriched in two different ADS reactors fuelled with Minor Actinide. The spent UO2 fuels are taken out from pressurized water reactor and CANDU spent fuels. …”
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Neutronic Analysis of SiC/SiC Sandwich Cladding Design in APR-1400 under Normal Operation Conditions by Maithah M. Alaleeli, Saeed A. Alameri, Mohammad Alrwashdeh

“…The criticality, neutron spectrum, actinide inventory, and power distribution as a function of burnup are investigated. …”
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General Analysis of Breed-and-Burn Reactors and Limited-Separations Fuel Cycles by Petroski, Robert C., Forget, Benoit

“…By recycling used B&B fuel in a limited-separations (without full actinide separations) fuel cycle, there is potential for sodium-cooled B&B reactors to achieve fleet doubling times of less than one decade, although this result is highly sensitive to the reactor core composition employed as well as thermal hydraulic performance.…”
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The synthesis and characterisation of metal complexes containing chemically reduced bipyridyl ligand systems by Irwin, M

“…Subsequently, examples of main group, transition metal, lanthanide and actinide species that contain or may contain reduced forms of the ligand are discussed.…”

Sequential fission and the influence of 208Pb closed shells on the dynamics of superheavy element synthesis reactions by D.Y. Jeung, D.J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, C. Simenel, E.C. Simpson, K.J. Cook, H.M. Albers, J. Buete, I.P. Carter, Ch.E. Düllmann, J. Khuyagbaatar, B. Kindler, N. Lobanov, B. Lommel, C. Mokry, E. Prasad, J. Runke, C. Sengupta, J.F. Smith, P. Thörle-Pospiech, N. Trautmann, K. Vo-Phuoc, J. Walshe, E. Williams, A. Yakushev

“…Measured binary quasifission mass spectra in reactions with actinide nuclides show a large peak in yield near the doubly-magic 208Pb. …”
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Nuclear fission properties of super heavy nuclei described within the four-dimensional Langevin model by Chikako Ishizuka, Xuan Zhang, Kazuya Shimada, Mark Usang, Fedir Ivanyuk, Satoshi Chiba

“…Those results are consistent with the experimental data, especially in the actinide region without adjusting parameters. Based on such a reliable model, we previously investigated the fission of representative SHN where the experimental data exist and found that doubly-magic shell closure of 132Sn and 208Pb dominates the fission process. …”
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Sensitivity-Analysis-Driven Surrogate Model for Molten Salt Reactors Control by Eric Cervi, Xuefei Lu, Antonio Cammi, Francesco Di Maio, Enrico Zio

“…The numerical modeling of these innovative systems is fundamental to allow for a safer and more sustainable power production (e.g., due to the lower radiotoxicity of the actinide inventory in MSRs and to the possibility of operation at atmospheric pressure). …”
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Population analysis and the effects of Gaussian basis set quality and quantum mechanical approach: main group through heavy element species by Sasha C. North, Kameron R. Jorgensen, Jason Pricetolstoy, Angela K. Wilson

“…This is the first time the cc-pVnZ-DK3 and cc-pwCVnZ-DK3 basis sets have been examined with respect to their behavior across all levels of basis sets for atomic charges for an actinide. The quantum methods chosen include two density functional (PBE0 and B3LYP), Hartree-Fock, and second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP2) approaches.…”
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How to approach the island of stability: Reactions using multinucleon transfer or radioactive neutron-rich beams? by Long Zhu, Jun Su, Cheng Li, Feng-Shou Zhang

“…The radioactive beams 49−59Ca induced hot FE reactions with actinide targets and the MNT reaction 238U + 252Cf are investigated within the framework of the dinuclear system model. …”
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Geochemical and Isotope Anomalies in Sioma River Gorge, Western Tajikistan by Djamshed A. Abdushukurov, Daler Abdusamadzoda, Octavian G. Duliu, Marina V. Frontasyeva

“…The possible influence of active air transport from the southern Tadjik plane during the Afghani storms, as well as the presence of actinide-rich minerals, were analyzed and discussed.…”
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Nuclear Fission in Low Excitation Energy within Macroscopic-microscopic Model and Langevin Approach by LIU Lile;CHEN Yongjing;WU Xizhen;LI Zhuxia;GE Zhigang;SHEN Caiwan;SU Yang;HUANG Xiaolong;SHU Nengchuan

“…It is found that the elongation deformation space has a significant influence on the symmetric fission channel, especially for the calculation of the TKE around the symmetric mass region, which is because that the symmetric channel corresponds to the super-long deformation for the light actinide nuclei such as U, Np, Pu and so on, so that the less elongation deformation space could block the larger elongated nuclear shapes along the Langevin trajectories. …”
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Effect of carbon content on electronic structure of uranium carbides by Sergei M. Butorin, Stephen Bauters, Lucia Amidani, Aaron Beck, André Rossberg, Stephan Weiss, Tonya Vitova, Kristina O. Kvashnina, Olivier Tougait

“…Both the x-ray spectroscopic data (in particular, the C K XAS measurements) and results of the DFT+U+SOC calculations indicate the importance of taking into account U and SOC for the description of the electronic structure of actinide carbides.…”
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Developing a Reactivity-Equivalent Physical Transformation to Simulate an Axially Heterogeneous Boiling Water Reactor by Robert Mossop, Bruno Merk, Maulik Patel, Tetsushi Hino, Aiden Peakman

“…This design aims to minimise construction costs and waste production as well as to utilise separated plutonium and minor actinide fuel. However, the axial heterogeneity of the design poses calculation difficulties. …”
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Time-of-flight measurements of MINERVE samples containing fission products and neutron absorbing isotopes by Noguere Gilles, Geslot Benoit, Gruel Adrien, Kopecky Stefan, Leconte Pierre, Paradela Carlos, Pottier Mathilde, Schillebeeckx Peter

“…Most of the samples are composed of UO2 pellets mixed with a high neutron absorbing nuclide, i.e. fission product, actinide, in a double-sealed Zry-4 container. An experimental program started in 2015 in collaboration with the Joint Research Centre of Geel to study the MINERVE samples at the time-of-flight facility GELINA by the neutron transmission technique. …”
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