Nuclear Fuel Transmutation

Akbar Abbasi

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Abstract: Nuclear power plants to generates electric energy used nuclear fuel such as Uranium Oxide (UOX). A typical VVER-1000 reactor uses about 20-25 tons of spent fuel per year. The fuel transmutation of UOX fuel was evaluated by VISTA computer code. In this estimation the front end and back end components of fuel cycle was calculated. The front end of the cycle parameter are FF requirements, enrichment value requirements, depleted uranium amount, conversion requirements and natural uranium requirements. The back-end component is Spent Fuel (SF), Actinide Inventory (AI) and Fission Product (FP) radioisotopes.

Keywords: nuclear power plant; nuclear fuel; front end; back end; actinide inventory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.94065

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