@inproceedings{397b3086070d409abb0e2cdca074bdd3,
title = "Proliferation resistant fuel for pebble bed modular reactors",
abstract = "We show that it is possible to denature the Plutonium produced in Pebble Bed Modular Reactors (PBMR) by doping the nuclear fuel with either 3050 ppm of 237Np or 2100 ppm of Am vector. A correct choice of these isotopes concentration yields denatured Plutonium with isotopic ratio 238Pu/Pu ≥ 6%, for the entire fuel burnup cycle. The penalty for introducing these isotopes into the nuclear fuel is a subsequent shortening of the fuel burnup cycle, with respect to a non-doped reference fuel, by 41.2 Full Power Days (FPDs) and 19.9 FPDs, respectively, which correspond to 4070 MWd/ton and 1965 MWd/ton reduction in fuel discharge burnup.",
keywords = "Americium, BGCore, Neptunium, PBMR, Proliferation resistant fuel",
author = "Yigal Ronen and Menashe Aboudy and Dror Regev and Erez Gilad",
year = "2012",
month = dec,
day = "6",
language = "American English",
isbn = "9781622763894",
series = "International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 2012, PHYSOR 2012: Advances in Reactor Physics",
pages = "1738--1748",
booktitle = "International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 2012, PHYSOR 2012",
note = "International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 2012: Advances in Reactor Physics, PHYSOR 2012 ; Conference date: 15-04-2012 Through 20-04-2012",
}