Study on plutonium burner high temperature gas-cooled reactor in Japan – Introduction scenario, reactor safety and fabrication tests of the 3S-TRISO fuel

Study on plutonium burner high temperature gas-cooled reactor in Japan – Introduction scenario, reactor safety and fabrication tests of the 3S-TRISO fuel

•Pu burner HTGR achieves similar safety features as the uranium fueled core and 600 MWth output.•Pu burner HTGR contributes to Pu incineration with small amount of HLW packages and footprint.•Pu-simulated CeO2-YSZ kernel was fabricated successfully by the external gelation process as well as the HTT...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nuclear engineering and design 2020-02, Vol.357, p.110419, Article 110419
Hauptverfasser: Ueta, Shohei, Mizuta, Naoki, Fukaya, Yuji, Goto, Minoru, Tachibana, Yukio, Honda, Masaki, Saiki, Yohei, Takahashi, Masashi, Ohira, Koichi, Nakano, Masaaki, Ohashi, Kazutaka, Okamoto, Koji
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Sprache:eng
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Fabrication
High temperature
High temperature gas cooled reactors
High temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR)
Nuclear engineering
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear safety
Nuclear Science & Technology
Plutonium
Plutonium (Pu)-burner
Reactor safety
Reactors
Science & Technology
Spent fuel disposal
Technology
TRISO coated fuel particle
Zirconium carbide (ZrC)
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Zusammenfassung:•Pu burner HTGR achieves similar safety features as the uranium fueled core and 600 MWth output.•Pu burner HTGR contributes to Pu incineration with small amount of HLW packages and footprint.•Pu-simulated CeO2-YSZ kernel was fabricated successfully by the external gelation process as well as the HTTR fuel.•Fabrication of the 3S-TRISO fuel consisting of a ZrC and TRISO on CeO2-YSZ was demonstrated successfully.
ISSN:0029-5493
1872-759X
DOI:10.1016/j.nucengdes.2019.110419