TY - GEN

T1 - COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE TRANSMUTATION EFFICIENCY OF PLUTONIUM AND MINOR ACTINIDES IN FUSION/FISSION HYBRIDS AND ADS

AU - Kadi, Yacine

AU - Dahlfors, Marcus

N1 - A preliminary comparative assessment relevant to the transmutation efficiency of plutonium and minor actinides has been performed in the case of ANSALDO’s Energy Amplifier Demonstration Facility based on molten lead-bismuth eutectic cooling, classical MOX-fuel technology and operating at 80 MW th. The neutronic calculations presented in this paper are a result of a state-of-the-art computer code package, EA-MC, developed by C. Rubbia and his group at CERN. Both high-energy particle interactions and low-energy neutron transport are treated with a sophisticated method based on a full Monte Carlo simulation, together with modern nuclear data libraries. Detailed Monte Carlo transport calculations were performed for different types of external neutron sources: D-D and D-T fusion sources and proton induced spallation neutron sources. The fuel core was described on a pinby-pin basis allowing for detailed scans of the main neutronic properties, e.g. neutron flux spectra and power density distributions. 853

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

M3 - Other contribution

ER -