Open AccessRemix NFC: options, timeframe, technical and economic assessment of efficiency
Author(s) -
K V Ivanov,
O. V. Kryukov,
A. V. Khaperskaya
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1475/1/012025
Subject(s) - investment (military) , nuclear fuel , irradiation , resource (disambiguation) , computer science , manufacturing engineering , environmental science , process engineering , engineering , waste management , nuclear engineering , nuclear physics , physics , computer network , politics , political science , law
REMIX conception is one of the advance option of NFC for LWR SNF management for U&Pu multyrecycling in existing NPP fleet, which suppose more efficient usage of natural resource and energetic potential in SNF, provide non-accumulation SNF. Three experimental REMIX fuel assemblies, (FA) containing 18 REMIX-fuel elements have been manufactured. Since 2016, they are being irradiated at Balakovo NPP. In parallel, ampules for FA irradiation in MIR research reactor and post-irradiation investigations were manufactured – some of them have already been removed and are being investigated. The next stage is to have references in the full-scale F As fabrication and irradiation. In 2018 there was the start of the safety case development program for REMIX fuel use in WWER-1000. The program includes the development and validation of computer codes for nuclear and radiation safety demonstration. There are plans for the industrial facility for REMIX-fuel fabrication construction. In 2018 the development of investment justification such facility was initiated.