Technological Assessment of National Nuclear Fuel Cycle Using Transmutations of High-Level Nuclear Waste (Hlw)

Tae Ho Woo and Yun Il Kim

Energy & Environment, 2012, vol. 23, issue 4, 587-598

Abstract: The advanced fuel cycle initiative (AFCI) has been investigated for the safe processing of the spent nuclear fuels (SNFs), which has focused mainly on the economic factor. The simulation of the political factor is suggested, which is introduced by the political susceptibility factor (PSF), because the political situation is much more important in the treatment of the SNFs considering the characteristics of the nuclear material. The system dynamics (SD) algorithm is used in the dynamical simulation where the political aspect is emphasized. There are 5 classifications of the PSF as president, party, vote, term, and feedback. The degree of the possibility is impacted by 5 steps. Eventually, the dynamic simulation is quantified for the SNFs. The possibility of the high-level nuclear waste (HLW) repository construction increases slowly in the early stage and faster in the later stage. The importance of the political aspect for the SNFs treatment is shown as numerical values with easy estimations.

Keywords: Spent Nuclear Fuels; Global Nuclear Energy Partnership; Political Susceptibility Factor; Pyroprocessing; Non-nuclear Proliferation Treaty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1260/0958-305X.23.4.587

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