Proliferation-resistant fuel for CANDU reactors

Yigal Ronen; M. Aboudy; D. Regev

doi:10.13182/NSE10-51

Proliferation-resistant fuel for CANDU reactors

Yigal Ronen, M. Aboudy, D. Regev

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Obtaining denaturatedplutonium with ²³⁸Pu/Pu ≥ 6% in CANDU reactors can be achieved by introducing either ²⁴¹Am or ²³⁷Np into the nuclear fuel. It was found that about the same results are obtained by doping the fuel with ²⁴¹Am or ²³⁷Np. In order not to reduce the fuel burnup, there is a need to enrich the uranium to 0.8% for both ²⁴¹Am and ²³⁷Np doping.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	16-26
Number of pages	11
Journal	Nuclear Science and Engineering
Volume	170
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.13182/NSE10-51
State	Published - 1 Jan 2012

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