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IAEA Activities in the Area of Partitioning and Transmutation Alexander Stanculescu Nuclear Energy Department Nuclear Power Technology Development Section IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA Activities Implemented in

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IAEA Activities in the Area of Partitioning and Transmutation

Alexander Stanculescu Nuclear Energy Department Nuclear Power Technology Development Section

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IAEA Activities

Implemented in collaboration by IAEA’s

Nuclear Power Technology Development and Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Materials Sections

Framework given by the Technical Working

Groups on Fast Reactors (TWG-FR) and on Nuclear Fuel Cycle Options (TWG-NFCO)

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Technical Working Group on Fast Reactors (TWG-FR)

TWG-FR working tool to

Promote exchange of information on

national and multi-national fast reactor and hybrid systems programs (e.g. ADS)

Stimulate and facilitate collaborative

research and development (Coordinated Research Projects, CRPs)

Coordinate activities with other Agency

projects (e.g. in Safety), and international

  • rganizations (EC, ISTC, and OECD/NEA)
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Membership of the TWG-FR

Belarus, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Republic

  • f Korea, Russia, Switzerland, United

Kingdom, and United States of America, as well as the EU (EC), ISTC, and OECD/NEA Observers: Belgium, Sweden

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Recent and Ongoing Activities

School on Physics, Technology and

Applications of Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS), in collaboration with ICTP, 19 – 30 Nov 2007, Trieste, Italy

Lecture notes on

http://cdsagenda5.ictp.trieste.it/full_display.p hp?email=0&ida=a06213

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Recent and Ongoing Activities, cont’d

Advanced Workshop on Model Codes

for Spallation Reactions, in collaboration with ICTP, 4 – 8 Feb 2008, Trieste, Italy

International Nuclear Data Committee

Report, INDC(NDS)-0530

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Recent and Ongoing Activities, cont’d

Workshop on Nuclear Reaction Data for

Advanced Reactor Technologies, in collaboration with ICTP, 19 – 30 May 2008, Trieste, Italy

Lecture notes on

http://cdsagenda5.ictp.trieste.it/full_display.p hp?smr=0&ida=a07153

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Recent and Ongoing Activities, cont’d

Coordinated Research Project (CRP) on

Studies of Innovative Reactor Technology Options for Effective Incineration of Radioactive Waste

17 institutions in 13 Member States & EC

(JRC)

Transient behaviour of advanced

transmutation systems, both critical and sub- critical

Papers at PHYSOR 2006, ICENES 2007, and

GLOBAL 2007

Final CRP report to be published by end 2008

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Recent and Ongoing Activities, cont’d

Coordinated Research Project (CRP) on

Analytical and Experimental Benchmark Analyses of Accelerator Driven Systems

Participation from 27 institutions in 18 IAEA

Member States

Papers at AccApp2007, and PHYSOR2008

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Recent and Ongoing Activities, cont’d

Scope of the CRP

  • Computational and experimental benchmarking
  • ADS and non-spallation neutron source driven

sub-critical systems

  • Work domains in the first stage

YALINA Booster Kyoto University Critical Assembly (KUCA) Pre-TRADE FEAT and TARC ADS kinetics analytical benchmarks Actinides cross sections Spallation targets ADS performance

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YALINA Booster

5 10 15 20 10 100 1000 10000

26.02.08 1141 EK10 DT-neutrons Pulse duration 5 mks

EC1B EC2B EC3B EC6T (detector in Cd cover) EC9R EC10R

Number of counts Time, ms

  • Ref. configuration
  • 3He count rates
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YALINA Booster Reference Configuration, Preliminary keff Intercomparisons

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YALINA Booster Reference Configuration, Preliminary βeff Intercomparisons

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Spallation Targets, ITEP Benchmarks

148Gd production

from natW(p,x)

  • Satisfactory agreement of exp. results with
  • previous measurements at 0.6 and 0.8 GeV
  • Theoretical predictions only qualitative
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Spallation Targets, JINR Benchmarks

  • Axial distribution of long-lived residual isotopes

production rates in Pb samples

  • Preliminary results show large discrepancies
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Spallation Targets, JINR Benchmarks

207Bi

0.0E+00 5.0E-02 1.0E-01 1.5E-01 2.0E-01 2.5E-01 3.0E-01 28.0 28.5 29.0 29.5 30.0 30.5 distance from the target front [cm] Production [Bq/g]

3_Bertini_Dresner 3_CEM2k 3_INCL4_Abla 3_Isabel_Abla 4_INCL4_Dresner 5_INCL_Abla 5_CEM 5_Bertini_Dresner experiment

  • Discrepancies position dependent
  • Larger farther away from the target
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Spallation Targets, JINR Benchmarks

  • Somewhat better agreement for

heavier residues

194Au(194Hg)

0.0E+00 2.0E-02 4.0E-02 6.0E-02 8.0E-02 8 16 24 32 distance from the target front [cm] Production [Bq/g]

3_Bertini_Dresner 3_CEM2k 3_INCL4_Abla 3_Isabel_Abla 5_INCL_Abla 5_CEM 5_Bertini_Dresner experiment

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Recent and Ongoing Activities, cont’d

Conclusions on current status of the CRP on

Analytical and Experimental Benchmark Analyses for Accelerator Driven Systems

  • Progress not uniform for all benchmarks
  • In some cases, intermediate results reveal high

discrepancies, requiring further in-depth analyses

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Planned Activities

School on Physics, Technology and

Applications of Innovative Fast Neutron Systems

Organized by IAEA’s Department of Nuclear Energy, Department

  • f Nuclear Sciences and Applications, in collaboration with

ICTP, 9 – 20 November 2009, Trieste, Italy

Syllabus

  • Physics and Design Studies
  • General Concept Studies
  • Sub-system Studies
  • Nuclear Data
  • Fuel Development
  • Fuel Recycling
  • Fuel Cycle Studies
  • Impact of Transmutation Scenarios on High-level Waste

Repositories

  • …
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Planned Activities, cont’d

Large IAEA International Conferences

International Topical Meeting on Nuclear

Research Applications and Utilization of Accelerators, Vienna, 4 – 8 May 2009

  • Organized by IAEA’s Department of Nuclear

Energy, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, in collaboration with ANS

  • Announcement and online registration http://www-

pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Meetings/Announcements.asp ?ConfID=173

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Planned Activities, cont’d

Fast Reactors and Associated Fuel Cycle –

Challenges and Opportunities, 7 – 11 Dec 2009, Kyoto, Japan

  • Organized by IAEA’s Department of Nuclear Energy
  • First meeting of the International Advisory Committee

3 – 4 Nov 2008

  • Announcement before the end of 2008
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Publications Under Preparation

Accelerator Driven Systems: Energy

Generation and Transmutation of Nuclear Waste; Status Report

Status Report on Lead and Lead-Bismuth

Cooled Fast Reactors

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Databases

ADS Research and Development

Database

ADS related R&D programs: experimental facilities (existing and planned) and programs, methods and data development, design studies, … Web based, operational http://www-adsdb.iaea.org/index.cfm

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Looking Ahead Renewed interest in nuclear energy Sustainability ⇒ spent fuel utilization & breeding returning

to centre stage ⇒ fast reactor necessary linchpin

Fast reactor deployment likely to be accelerated Necessary condition for successful deployment ⇒

understanding & assessment of technological and design

  • ptions (based on past knowledge and experience, as well

as on research and technology development efforts)

IAEA assists Member State fast reactor deployment

activities by providing an umbrella for knowledge preservation, information exchange and collaborative R&D to pool resources and expertise ⇒ new project on TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT FOR FAST REACTOR MID TERM DEPLOYMENT

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Looking Ahead, cont’d

Achieving the full potential of fast neutron

system and closed fuel cycle technologies with regard to both efficient utilization of the fissile resources and waste management requires continued advances in research and technology development to ensure improved economics and maintain high safety levels with increased simplification of fast reactors

Areas of collaboration identified by Member

States through participation in the IAEA Nuclear Energy Department’s Technical Working Group

  • n Fast Reactors (TWG-FR)

New project on INNOVATIVE FAST NEUTRON

SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS

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For more information, please visit

http://www.iaea.org/inisnkm/nkm/aws/fnss/index.html

Thank You ! Thank You !