Present MOX Benchmarks Programmes in VENUS and a Proposal for a weapon-grade mox programme

Klaas van der Meer; T. Maldague; Daniel Marloye; Pierre D'hondt; Jacques Basselier

Present MOX Benchmarks Programmes in VENUS and a Proposal for a weapon-grade mox programme

Klaas van der Meer
, T. Maldague
, Daniel Marloye
, Pierre D'hondt
, Jacques Basselier

Research output › peer-review

Abstract

Large-scale MOX use in nuclear power plants is considered or implemented in various countries in order to idecrease the long-term burden of radioactive waste and the proliferation risks of the storage of plutonium. The dismantling of nuclear warheads will create another stockpile of plutonium that one could like to diminish. Consequently, there is a need to develop or to improve the in-core management codes and to benchmark and to validate them against experimental data with respect to MOX-fuel. Based on 25 years of experience, SCK and BN execute international programmes dedicated to LWR-users concerned with Pu-recycle strategies. Some experiments have been performed with MOX having Pu-vector of 92 % 239Pu, 8 % 240Pu. The most recent of these programmes (VIP, VIPO, VIPEX, VENUS-NBN) executed in the VENUS, a critical facility for benchmark experiments, are described in this paper. A proposal is made for a programme with MOX fuel containing military plutonium.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International conference on the Physics of Nuclear Science and Technology
Publisher	American Nuclear Society
Pages	400-404
Number of pages	5
Volume	2
ISBN (Print)	0894486314
State	Published - 1999
Event	1998 - International conference on the Physics of Nuclear Science and Technology - Long Island Duration: 5 Oct 1998 → 5 Oct 1998

Conference

Conference	1998 - International conference on the Physics of Nuclear Science and Technology
Country/Territory	United States
City	Long Island
Period	1998-10-05 → 1998-10-05

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van der Meer, K, Maldague, T, Marloye, D, D'hondt, P & Basselier, J 1999, Present MOX Benchmarks Programmes in VENUS and a Proposal for a weapon-grade mox programme. in Proceedings of the International conference on the Physics of Nuclear Science and Technology. vol. 2, American Nuclear Society, pp. 400-404, 1998 - International conference on the Physics of Nuclear Science and Technology, Long Island, New York, United States, 1998-10-05.

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