An optimization methodology for heterogeneous minor actinides transmutation

Nitride Fuel and Pyrochemical Process Developments for Transmutation of Minor Actinides in Jaeri

The Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) has proposed the concept of the transmutation of minor actinides (MA: Np, Am and Cm) with accelerator-driven systems (ADS), where MA nitride is adopted as a fuel material of a sub-critical core, because nitride fuel has the advantage of accommodating various MAs with a wide range of composition besides superior thermal and neutronic properties....

Minor Actinide Transmutation

Comparative Assessment of the Transmutation Efficiency of Plutonium and Minor Actinides in Fusion/fission Hybrids and Ads

A preliminary comparative assessment relevant to the transmutation efficiency of plutonium and minor actinides has been performed in the case of ANSALDO’s Energy Amplifier Demonstration Facility based on molten lead-bismuth eutectic cooling, classical MOX-fuel technology and operating at 80 MWth. The neutronic calculations presented in this paper are a result of a state-of-the-art computer code...

Dynamic Profiling Methodology for Resource Optimization in Heterogeneous Computing System

Embedded Systems combine one or more processing cores to support dedicated logic running on an ASIC or FPGA and meets design goals with optimized resource utilization. Optimization of resource utilization can be achieved by estimating the requirement of an application with a variety of aspects like performance, memory usage, resource usage, cache hit versus cache misses, energy consumption, etc...

Characteristics of Minor Actinide Transmutation in Minor Actinide Burner Reactors and Power Reactor

One of the techniques of minor actinides transmutation is to recycle these nuclides into fission reactors. Two concepts of a minor actinides burner reactor with very hard neutron energy spectrum as well as very high neutronjlux me discussed. The fuel cycle facilities for these burner reactors am assessed to discuss the technical feasibili~ of these reactors. Transmutation of minor actinide in b...