Actinidc and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation

Table of contents......Page 7
Executive summary......Page 11
Opening......Page 19
INL welcome address......Page 21
OECD/NEA welcome address......Page 23
Plenary Session: National Programmes on P&T......Page 25
OECD/NEA activities related to partitioning and transmutation......Page 27
The IAEA Co-ordinated Research Project (CRP) on “Analytical andExperimental Benchmark Analyses of Accelerator-driven Systems”*......Page 33
EURATOM research and training programme for partitioning and transmutation......Page 35
United States programme on partitioning and transmutation......Page 41
Future nuclear systems: Fuel cycle options and guidelines for research......Page 43
Minor-actinide-bearing fuel study activities in Japan for homogeneous TRU recycling fast reactor system......Page 45
Perspectives of pyroprocesses for long-term spent fuel management in Korea......Page 55
Session I: Fuel Cycle Strategies and Transition Scenarios......Page 61
International comparison for transition scenario codes involving COSI,DESAE, EVOLCODE, FAMILY and VISION......Page 63
Industrial research for transmutation scenarios......Page 75
Requirements-driven comprehensive approach to fuel cycle back-end optimisation......Page 87
World transition towards sustainable nuclear fuel cycle......Page 95
Overview on homogeneous and heterogeneous transmutation in a new French SFR: Reactor and fuel cycle impact......Page 115
Current status and future plan of research and development on partitioning and transmutation technology in Japan......Page 125
Session II: Waste Forms and Geological Disposal......Page 135
Fuel cycle potential waste for disposition......Page 137
Applying insights from repository safety assessments to evaluating impacts of partitioning and transmutation......Page 147
Relationship between geologic disposal characteristics and advanced nuclear fuel cycles with partitioning and transmutation......Page 157
The environmental impacts of Korean advanced nuclear fuel cycle KIEP-21 and disposal concepts......Page 167
Session III: Transmutation Fuels and Targets......Page 177
Minor actinide transmutation in an accelerator-driven system prototype: Results from fuel developments within the European programme EUROTRANS......Page 179
Development of minor actinide transmutation by CRIEPI......Page 189
Development programme on minor-actinide-bearing blankets at CEA......Page 203
Fuels for the United States DOE Deep Burn programme......Page 215
Progress of the CEA ALFA project: Atalante Laboratory for Actinide-bearing Fuel Manufacturing......Page 217
Behaviour of zirconium on passivated U-Zr-based fuel alloys......Page 223
Session IV: Pyro and Aqueous Processes......Page 233
ACSEPT – Progress in advanced partitioning and challenges for the future*......Page 235
Development of separation process for transuranium elements and some fission products using new extractants and adsorbents......Page 237
Recent progress in advanced actinide recycling processes......Page 247
One-cycle SANEX process development studies and lab-scale demonstrations......Page 249
Development of a novel GANEX process......Page 259
Advanced head-end for the treatment of used LWR fuel......Page 267
Current progress in R&D on pyrochemical partitioning technology in the Czech Republic......Page 271
Pyropartitioning experiment to recover TRU from high-level liquid waste......Page 279
Session V: Transmutation Physics and Materials......Page 289
Pb alloys’ coolant chemistry and structural materials performance:A review*......Page 291
Critical analysis of the effective delayed neutron fraction calculation routes by deterministic and Monte Carlo codes......Page 293
Experimental validation of reactivity monitoring techniques for powerADS systems to incinerate radioactive wastes......Page 305
Reaction cross-sections, fission yields and prompt neutron emission from actinide targets......Page 307
Investigation of nuclear data accuracy for the accelerator-driven system with minor actinide fuel......Page 317
Session VI Transmutation System: Design, Performance and Safety......Page 331
Progress review of accelerator-driven system at Kyoto University Critical Assembly......Page 333
Technology readiness levels for partitioning and transmutation of minor actinides in Japan ........Page 343
Advanced fuel cycle scenario study in the European context using different burner reactor concepts......Page 353
The Multi-purpose Hybrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications(MYRRHA)......Page 365
The Deep Burn project: 2010 overview and progress......Page 375
Systematic evaluation of uranium utilisation in nuclear systems......Page 381
List of participants......Page 391