Investigations of Mixed Uranium-Plutonium Nitride Fuel in Project Breakthrough

Mixed uranium-plutonium nitride fuel is seen as a promising fuel for fast reactors with a closed fuel cycle. A complex program of computational and experimental validation of this fuel up to 2020 has been developed within the scope of Project Breakthrough. Pre-reactor and post-reactor studies of mix...

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Published inAtomic energy (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 122; no. 3; pp. 185 - 199
Main Authors Grachev, A. F., Zabud’ko, L. M., Glushenkov, A. E., Ivanov, Yu. A., Kireev, G. A., Skupov, M. V., Gil’mutdinov, I. F., Grin’, P. I., Zvir, E. A., Kryukov, F. N., Nikitin, O. N.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.07.2017
Springer
Subjects
Hadrons
Heavy Ions
Investigations
Nitrides
Nuclear Chemistry
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear reactors
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Plutonium
Uranium
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Summary:Mixed uranium-plutonium nitride fuel is seen as a promising fuel for fast reactors with a closed fuel cycle. A complex program of computational and experimental validation of this fuel up to 2020 has been developed within the scope of Project Breakthrough. Pre-reactor and post-reactor studies of mixed uranium-plutonium nitride fuel are part of this program. The basic research results obtained by the end of 2016 are examined.
ISSN:1063-4258
1573-8205
DOI:10.1007/s10512-017-0254-8