The effects of isotopic separation on closed nuclear fuel cycles
| dc.contributor.advisor | Schneider, Erich A. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Deinert, Mark | |
| dc.creator | Flanagan, Robert Ryan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-10-04T18:34:55Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-22T22:30:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-10-04T18:34:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-22T22:30:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-05 | |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2012 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-10-04T18:34:55Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper investigates the potential benefits to the fuel cycle outcomes of removing a single isotope during separation processes. Two strategies for managing the removed isotope are considered. The first strategy looks at removal of a short to intermediate lived isotope from a mass stream to be recycled and subsequently recycling its decay daughter in a transmuting reactor. The second investigates the effect of removing a long lived fission product from high level waste and recycling it into the transmuting reactor. This analysis shows that the removal of Cm-244 using the first strategy provides a marked benefit to several fuel cycle metrics. The second strategy benefits the long term radioactivity measured from the high level waste from isotopes including Zr-93 and Cs-137. | |
| dc.description.department | Mechanical Engineering | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.15781/T2F47GW0K | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/41442 | |
| dc.subject | Isotopic | |
| dc.subject | Nuclear fuel cycle | |
| dc.title | The effects of isotopic separation on closed nuclear fuel cycles | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | text |