Abstract
The long-term (> 1000 years) hazards of high-level wastes (HLW) can be reduced substantially by practising waste-actinide partitioning-transmutation (P-T). This paper investigates the waste-actinide transmutation performance of a uranium hexafluoride actinide transmutation reactor (UHATR). Using mostly present-day and near-term technology, a preliminary UHATR design is established. Because of the gaseous nature of the fuel, very high neutron fluxes are obtained. Compared with an LWR, the average blanket thermal flux of this UHATR is about 10–30 times higher, leading to a 15-fold improvement in the percentage of actinides fissioned per year of irradiation.
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