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- Title
Multiple recycling of fuel in prototype fast breeder reactor.
- Authors
Pandikumar, G.; Gopalakrishnan, V.; Mohanakrishnan, P.
- Abstract
In a thermal neutron reactor, multiple recycle of U{Pu fuel is not possible due to degradation of fossile content of Pu in just one recycle. In the FBR closed fuel cycle, possibility of multi-recycle has been recognized. In the present study, Pu-239 equivalence approach is used to demonstrate the feasibility of achieving near constant input inventory of Pu and near stable Pu isotopic composition after a few recycles of the same fuel of the prototype fast breeder reactor under construction at Kalpakkam. After about five recycles, the cycle-to-cycle variation in the above parameters is below 1%.
- Subjects
WASTE recycling; FUEL; BREEDER reactors; FAST reactors; THERMAL neutrons; NUCLEAR reactors
- Publication
Pramana: Journal of Physics, 2009, Vol 72, Issue 5, p819
- ISSN
0304-4289
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12043-009-0074-z