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VVER nuclear fuel burnup with different absorbers

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A computational study is performed of the fuel burnup in VVER-1000 using different absorbers in open and closed fuel cycles. It is shown that mixtures of plutonium isotopes (energy and others) can give the same effect as gadolinium, which is currently used. Fuel burnup increases. When neptunium, americium, and curium isotopes are used as a consumable absorber in a closed fuel cycle, the accompanying effect is elimination of long-lived α-emitting radionuclides which have accumulated in long-term repositories.

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  1. State Science Center of the Russian Federation – Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (GNTs RF – ITEF), Moscow, Russia

    B. R. Bergelson, V. V. Belonog & A. S. Gerasimov

  2. National Nuclear Research University – Moscow Engineering-Physics Institute (NIYaU MIFI), Moscow, Russia

    G. V. Tikhomirov

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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya,Vol. 109, No. 4, pp. 194–197, October, 2010.

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Bergelson, B.R., Belonog, V.V., Gerasimov, A.S. et al. VVER nuclear fuel burnup with different absorbers. At Energy 109, 240–245 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-011-9351-2

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