Optimization of plutonium and minor actinide transmutation in an AP1000 fuel assembly via a genetic search algorithm

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• 作者：J. Washington ^{jwashing@gmail.com} ; J. King ; ^{kingjc@mines.edu}
• 刊名：Nuclear Engineering and Design
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：311
• 期：Complete
• 页码：199-212
• 全文大小：3603 K
• 卷排序：311

文摘

We model a modified AP1000 fuel assembly in SCALE6.1. We couple the NEWT module of SCALE to the MOGA module of DAKOTA. Transmutation is optimized based on choice of coating and fuel. Greatest transmutation achieved with PuZrO2MgO fuel pins coated with Lu2O3.