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The materials properties are selected based on their importance in the advanced nuclear fuel cycle options. NFCSS – The Nuclear fuel cycle simulation system is a scenario-based tool to estimate material flow in the nuclear fuel cycle. NFCSS is developed based on a model designed to estimate long-term nuclear fuel cycle requirements and ...
The nuclear fuel cycle, also called nuclear fuel chain, is the progression of nuclear fuel through a series of differing stages. It consists of steps in the front end , which are the preparation of the fuel, steps in the service period in which the fuel is used during reactor operation, and steps in the back end , which are necessary to safely ...
The nuclear fuel cycle involves the whole process of developing and preparing nuclear energy. It begins with the mining of the ore, followed by the transformation of these substances into nuclear fuel in the nuclear power plants. The nuclear fuel cycle also involves the disposal and monitoring of nuclear waste within these facilities. [8]
The nuclear fuel cycle employs a full actinide recycle with two major options: One is an intermediate-size (150–600 MWe) sodium-cooled reactor with uranium-plutonium-minor-actinide-zirconium metal alloy fuel, supported by a fuel cycle based on pyrometallurgical reprocessing in facilities integrated with the reactor. The second is a medium to ...
Nuclear fuel process A graph comparing nucleon number against binding energy Close-up of a replica of the core of the research reactor at the Institut Laue-Langevin. Nuclear fuel refers to any substance, typically fissile material, which is used by nuclear power stations or other nuclear devices to generate energy.
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, The Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Paris, 1994; I. Hensing and W Schultz, Economic Comparison of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Options, Energiewirtschaftlichen Instituts, Cologne, 1995. Cogema, Reprocessing-Recycling: the Industrial Stakes, presentation to the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Bonn, 9 May 1995.
The thorium fuel cycle is a nuclear fuel cycle that uses an isotope of thorium, 232 Th, as the fertile material. In the reactor, 232 Th is transmuted into the fissile artificial uranium isotope 233 U which is the nuclear fuel. Unlike natural uranium, natural thorium contains only trace amounts of fissile material (such as 231 Th
However, a number of proposed and one in construction new nuclear reactor designs are lead-cooled. Fuel designs being explored for this reactor scheme include fertile uranium as a metal, metal oxide or metal nitride. [2] The lead-cooled reactor design has been proposed as a generation IV reactor. Plans for future implementation of this type of ...