Analysis of Proliferation Risk Abatement for Fissile Materials with the Required Run Time in Small Nuclear Power Plants

The effect of small additions of Np, Am, and Cm to fresh uranium fuel on the critical mass, heat release, intensity of the spontaneous neutron radiation, and radiation dose rate, i.e., on the characteristics determining the attractiveness of the fuel for use in nuclear weapons, is analyzed for the K...

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Published in:Atomic energy (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2013-07, Vol.114 (3), p.157-160
Main Authors: Alekseev, V. I., Vavilkin, V. N., Osipov, S. L., Peskov, R. A., Petrunin, V. V., Pichkov, S. N., Sorokin, S. E., Sukharev, Yu. P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Hadrons
Heat transfer
Heavy Ions
Nuclear Chemistry
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear radiation
Nuclear reactors
Nuclear weapons
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Production planning
Quality control
Radiation
Risk
Studies
Uranium
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Summary:The effect of small additions of Np, Am, and Cm to fresh uranium fuel on the critical mass, heat release, intensity of the spontaneous neutron radiation, and radiation dose rate, i.e., on the characteristics determining the attractiveness of the fuel for use in nuclear weapons, is analyzed for the KLT-40S core. It is shown that adding to the initial fuel about 0.7% Am, Cm requires increasing the initial enrichment by only 1% but considerably decreases the attractiveness of fresh and spent fuel.
ISSN:1063-4258
1573-8205
DOI:10.1007/s10512-013-9689-8