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.

Highlights

  • VVER −1000 (Water-Water Energetic Reactor-1000) is a type of pressurized water reactor with 1000 MW thermal power planned to generate a 330 MWe [1]

  • Some researchers have been studied the actinide inventory in spent fuel of nuclear power reactors [2–4]

  • VISTA computer code is available for the calculation of nuclide inventories in spent fuel

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Summary

Introduction

VVER −1000 (Water-Water Energetic Reactor-1000) is a type of pressurized water reactor with 1000 MW thermal power planned to generate a 330 MWe [1]. Production actinide of using nuclear power reactors as electric energy source. Actinide Inventory (AI) elements cumulative in spent fuel (SF) and are a part of spent fuel that useable as MOX fuel in nuclear power reactors. Some researchers have been studied the actinide inventory in spent fuel of nuclear power reactors [2–4]. The creation comprises of neutron catch or decay of a forerunner nuclide. The estimation of the response rates requires nuclide fixation and cross-area information, the neutron transition level and vitality range in the fuel. As the energy spectrum in the fuel is subject to the grid structure and arrangement, such counts include rehashed iterative answers for the range and cross-section. The combined range is utilized to get the neutron cross-segments which are utilized for the count of the nuclide response rates. The treatment of these amounts in the few elective codes has been analyzed [6]

Nuclear fuel cycle
The composition of transuranic in the spent fuel of VVER reactor
Radiation and protection of nuclear fuel cycle
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