Transmutation Strategy Using Thorium-Reprocessed Fuel ADS for Future Reactors in Vietnam
Joint Authors
Source
Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-5, 5 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-08-13
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
5
Main Subjects
Engineering Sciences and Information Technology
Abstract EN
Nuclear power is believed to be a key to the energy security for a developing country like Vietnam where the power demanding increases rapidly every year.
Nevertheless, spent nuclear fuel from nuclear power plants is the source of radiotoxic and proliferation risk.
A conceptual design of ADS utilizing thorium fuel as a based fuel and reprocessed fuel as a seed for nuclear waste transmutation and energy production is proposed as one of the clean, safe, and economical solutions for the problem.
In the design, 96 seed assemblies and 84 blanket assemblies were inserted into the core to make a heterogeneous subcritical core configuration.
Introducing thorium fuel into the core offers an effective way to transmute plutonium and minor actinide (MA) and gain energy from this process.
Transmutation rate as a function of burnup is estimated using MCNPX 2.7.0 code.
Results show that by using the seed-blanket designed ADS, at 40 GWd/t burnup, 192 kg of plutonium and 156 kg of MA can be eliminated.
Equivalently, 1 GWth ADS can be able to transmute the transuranic (TRU) waste from 2 GWth LWRs.
14 units of ADS would be required to eliminate TRUs from the future reactors to be constructed in Vietnam.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Vu, Thanh Mai& Kitada, Takanori. 2013. Transmutation Strategy Using Thorium-Reprocessed Fuel ADS for Future Reactors in Vietnam. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-489520
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Vu, Thanh Mai& Kitada, Takanori. Transmutation Strategy Using Thorium-Reprocessed Fuel ADS for Future Reactors in Vietnam. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-489520
American Medical Association (AMA)
Vu, Thanh Mai& Kitada, Takanori. Transmutation Strategy Using Thorium-Reprocessed Fuel ADS for Future Reactors in Vietnam. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-489520
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-489520