Development programme on minor-actinide-bearing blankets at CEA
An experimental programme will be necessary to qualify the recent minor-actinide-bearing blanket (MABB) concept which involves the transmutation of minor actinides on a fertile UO2 support in a sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) with a heterogeneous recycling mode. This paper describes a development programme to study the behaviour of minor-actinide-bearing blankets under irradiation with the goal of qualifying the concept on a fuel sub-assembly scale according to a schedule that is compatible with the deployment of Generation IV SFR.
This development programme can be divided into four main phases: fuel selection, feasibility, optimisation and qualification. An irradiation programme is drawn up for each of these phases, taking into account the manufacturing and irradiation means available at each specific period.
BONNEROT Jean-Marc;
PILLON Sylvie;
BEJAOUI Syriac;
D'AGATA Elio;
HANIA Ralph;
HERLET Nathalie;
JANKOWIAK Aurelien;
AUCLAIR Michel;
BENDOTTI Stephane;
LAMBERT T.;
VALENTIN Bernard;
2013-03-21
OECD
JRC62242
978-92-64-99174-3,
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