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Investigating material attractiveness of minor actinides fuel for waste transmutation
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Applied Nuclear Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3473-3750
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Applied Nuclear Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8207-3462
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Applied Nuclear Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6596-1828
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Applied Nuclear Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5133-6829
2023 (English)In: Proceedings of the INMM & ESARDA Joint Annual Meeting, May 22-26, 2023, Institute of Nuclear Materials Management , 2023Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
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Radiotoxicity of nuclear waste is dominated by fission products in the first ~500 years, while for longer times long-lived transuranic elements play a larger role. The main purpose of Partitioning and Transmutation (P&T) is to transform nuclides that represent a long term source of heat and radiotoxicity, such as Pu and Minor Actinides (MA) into stable and short lived nuclides. The use of nitride fuel for fast reactors has gained attention because besides its higher melting point and thermal conductivity compared to oxide fuels. Additionally, actinide mononitride can accommodate a wide range of MA compositions, enabling nitride fuels to be used for transmutation in fast reactors. However, studies of non-proliferation implications of using such fuel are scarce. In this paper we present results related to investigation of material attractiveness of an americium-neptunium nitride fuel intended to fuel a lead-cooled reactor. The MA nitride fuel was evaluated in light of material properties known to impact the usability of the material in the manufacture of nuclear explosive devices. The material attractiveness evaluation was done using simulations and material attractiveness figures-of-merit suggested in earlier works.

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Institute of Nuclear Materials Management , 2023.
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-558018OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-558018DiVA, id: diva2:1963778
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INMM & ESARDA Joint Annual Meeting, May 22-26, 2023, Vienna, Austria
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Swedish Research CouncilAvailable from: 2025-06-04 Created: 2025-06-04 Last updated: 2025-06-04Bibliographically approved

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