Evolutionary/advanced light water reactor data report Metadata

Title

• Main Title Evolutionary/advanced light water reactor data report

Contributor

• Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
  Contributor Type: Organization
  Contributor Info: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)

Publisher

• Name: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  Place of Publication: California
  Additional Info: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
• Name: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Place of Publication: Tennessee
  Additional Info: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)

Date

• Creation: 1996-02-09

Language

• English

Description

• Content Description: The US DOE Office of Fissile Material Disposition is examining options for placing fissile materials that were produced for fabrication of weapons, and now are deemed to be surplus, into a condition that is substantially irreversible and makes its use in weapons inherently more difficult. The principal fissile materials subject to this disposition activity are plutonium and uranium containing substantial fractions of plutonium-239 uranium-235. The data in this report, prepared as technical input to the fissile material disposition Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) deal only with the disposition of plutonium that contains well over 80% plutonium-239. In fact, the data were developed on the basis of weapon-grade plutonium which contains, typically, 93.6% plutonium-239 and 5.9% plutonium-240 as the principal isotopes. One of the options for disposition of weapon-grade plutonium being considered is the power reactor alternative. Plutonium would be fabricated into mixed oxide (MOX) fuel and fissioned (``burned``) in a reactor to produce electric power. The MOX fuel will contain dioxides of uranium and plutonium with less than 7% weapon-grade plutonium and uranium that has about 0.2% uranium-235. The disposition mission could, for example, be carried out in existing power reactors, of which there are over 100 in the United States. Alternatively, new LWRs could be constructed especially for disposition of plutonium. These would be of the latest US design(s) incorporating numerous design simplifications and safety enhancements. These ``evolutionary`` or ``advanced`` designs would offer not only technological advances, but also flexibility in siting and the option of either government or private (e.g., utility) ownership. The new reactor designs can accommodate somewhat higher plutonium throughputs. This data report deals solely with the ``evolutionary`` LWR alternative.
• Physical Description: 119 p.

Subject

• Keyword: Safety Analysis
• Keyword: Uranium Recycle
• Keyword: Fuel Storage Pools
• Keyword: Reactor Components
• Keyword: Radioactive Waste Management
• Keyword: Water Cooled Reactors
• Keyword: Mixed Oxide Fuels
• STI Subject Categories: 05 Nuclear Fuels
• Keyword: Engineering Drawings
• Keyword: Safety Injection
• Keyword: Primary Coolant Circuits
• Keyword: Radiation Protection
• Keyword: Nuclear Materials Management
• Keyword: Design
• Keyword: Rhr Systems
• Keyword: Reactor Cores
• Keyword: Uranium 235
• Keyword: Plutonium 239
• STI Subject Categories: 21 Nuclear Power Reactors And Associated Plants
• Keyword: Plutonium Recycle
• Keyword: Soluble Poisons

Source

• Other Information: PBD: 9 Feb 1996

Collection

• Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
  Code: OSTI

Institution

• Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
  Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

• Report

Format

• Text

Identifier

• Other: DE96010754
• Report No.: UCRL-ID--123411
• Grant Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• DOI: 10.2172/231369
• Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 231369
• Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc668945

Note

• Display Note: INIS; OSTI as DE96010754