Uguru, E. H. and Abdul Sani, S. F. and Khandaker, Mayeen Uddin * and Rabir, M. H. (2020) Actinide and non-actinide production from UO2 fuel in W-SMR: Effects of gadolinium burnable absorber. Annals of Nuclear Energy, 137. p. 107083. ISSN 0306-4549
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Burnable neutron absorbers are used for efficient reactivity control especially in light and heavy water reactors. Effect of gadolinium burnable absorber (GdBA) on reactivity, actinide and non-actinide content of nuclear waste was investigated. Westinghouse small modular reactor (W-SMR) was studied using MCNPX 2.7 code integrated with CINDER90 for the calculations. Positive reactivity swing was observed in fuel assemblies with GdBA rods. The concentration of actinides was relatively higher in FA without GdBA rod compared to those with GdBA rods. The net activity of 241Pu and 239Np were respectively higher compared to other isotopes of plutonium and neptunium and slightly larger in FAs with GdBA rods. However, a significant increase on the concentration of non-actinide inventory was observed which increased with the number of GdBA rods. Therefore, the use of GdBA for reactivity control should be limited to avoid unrealistic reactivity swing and increased non-actinides content of the spent fuel.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Actinide;Reactivity;Non-actinide;Gadolinium;Small modular reactor |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) > R895-920 Medical Physics/Medical Radiology |
| Divisions: | Others > Non Sunway Academics Sunway University > School of Medical and Life Sciences [formerly School of Healthcare and Medical Sciences until 2020] > Centre of Biomedical Physics [wef 2021 changed to Research Centre for Applied Physics and Radiation Technologies and moved to SET ] |
| Depositing User: | Dr Janaki Sinnasamy |
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| Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2021 05:45 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Mar 2021 05:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/id/eprint/1614 |
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