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Introduction
- Subject Description and Administrative Details
- Ore Fuel Cycle Overview of Front End: Ore Enrichment and Fabrication
- Influence of Reactor Type
- Material and SWU Balances
- Back End: Storage, Transportation, Disposal and Reprocessing
- Current Issues: Proliferation, Actinide Burning and Repository Siting
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In-core AspectS (PWR as example)
- Linear Reactivity Model of Core Behavior and Refueling Strategy
- Neutronic Effects of Fissile and Fertile Constituents: U-235/U-233/Pu-239; U-238, Th-232
- Effects of Neutron Spectrum
- Burnable Poison Physics
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Core Design Criteria and Constraints
- Limiting Transients & Accidents
- Reactivity Control and Reactivity Feedback Coefficients (CRD's and Soluble Poison) Fuel and Clad Endurance
- Thermal-Hydraulic Considerations (DNB, Fuel)
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Fuel Cycle and Operational Economic Analysis
- Overall Busbar Cost Model
- Fuel Cycle Cost Model
- Selection of Cycle Length
- PWR vs BWR
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Physics and Fuel Cycle Characteristics and Limits of Other
Thermal Reastors
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Physics, Core Design, and Fuel Cycle Characteristics of Fast Spectrum Systems (â, Doppler, Fuel and Implications)
- Na Cooled
- Pb/Bi Cooled
- Gas Cooled
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Proliferation and the Fuel Cycle
- Weapons Materials
- Intrinsic Proliferation Resistance
- Extrinsic Proliferation Measures
- International Agreement (NPT, START Bilaterals)
- International Safeguards
- Integrated Examples of Reactors and Fuel Cycles
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1st Project Presentations |
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High Level Waste Disposal
- Geological Repository Requirements and Concepts Worldwide (Yucca Mountain)
- Performance Metrics
- Once through Assembly Disposal vs. Reprocessing Waste Form Disposal
- Interim Storage (Thermal Limit)
- Other Concepts: Sub-seabed Disposal, Deep Bore Holes
- LLW Disposal
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Actinide Transmutation
- Hazard Indices vs. Time
- Accelerator Driven Concepts
- Reactors Burning Plutonium and Minor Actinides
- Fuel Cycle Economics
- Fission Product Transmutation
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Reprocessing Options
- PUREX & Wet Separations
- PYROREPROCESSING
- AIROX - DUPIC
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Defense Wastes
- Types of Wastes
- Storage Conditions
- Plans for Disposition, WIPP + YM
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Special Applications
- Plutonium Recycle
- Weapons Surplus Pu Burning
- Thorium Fueling: Uniform vs. Seed/Blanket
- Tritium Production
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Invited Guests |
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Contemporary Issues: Extra Long Fuel Cycle for Buttoned up Reactors
- IRIS
- Electric Breeder, Energy Amplifier
- Accelerator Power Plants
- Geopolitical Issues
- Global Materials Management
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Final Presentations of Class Papers |
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