Disposition of weapon-grade plutonium with pebble bed type HTGRS using Pu burner balls and Th breeder balls

Kiyonobu Yamashita; Kazumi Tokuhara; Nozomu Fujimoto; Kazuhiko Kunitomi

Disposition of weapon-grade plutonium with pebble bed type HTGRS using Pu burner balls and Th breeder balls

Kiyonobu Yamashita, Kazumi Tokuhara, Nozomu Fujimoto, Kazuhiko Kunitomi

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A concept of reactor system was developed with which weapons-grade Plutonium could be made perfectly worthless in use for weapons. It is a pebble bed type HTGR using Pu burner ball fuels and Th breeder ball fuels. The residual amounts of ²³⁹Pu in spent Pu balls become less than 1% of the initial loading. Furthermore, a method was found that the power coefficient could be made negative by heavy Pu loading in the Pu burner ball fuels.

Original language	English
Pages	513-517
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - Dec 1 1996
Externally published	Yes
Event	Proceedings of the 1996 4th ASME/JSME International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, ICONE-4. Part 4 (of 5) - New Orleans, LA, USA Duration: Mar 10 1996 → Mar 14 1996

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Other	Proceedings of the 1996 4th ASME/JSME International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, ICONE-4. Part 4 (of 5)
City	New Orleans, LA, USA
Period	3/10/96 → 3/14/96

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Disposition of weapon-grade plutonium with pebble bed type HTGRS using Pu burner balls and Th breeder balls. / Yamashita, Kiyonobu; Tokuhara, Kazumi; Fujimoto, Nozomu et al.
1996. 513-517 Paper presented at Proceedings of the 1996 4th ASME/JSME International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, ICONE-4. Part 4 (of 5), New Orleans, LA, USA.

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