Speaker
Description
Small modular reactors as a strong candidate for the future of nuclear energy seem to be the prospective contributors to the spent fuel inventory of the world. There are more than 80 small modular reactor concepts with various core designs and fuel cycle options including molten salt small modular reactors which will produce various amounts of spent fuel with different radiological and chemical properties during the operation. Therefore, the characteristics of spent fuel and radioactive waste generated from proposed small modular reactor designs should be evaluated and the implications on the back-end nuclear fuel cycle stages should be assessed. Since the molten salt reactor fuels are completely different in form and design from the conventional fuels used in the current reactor technologies, to develop the technologies needed for the back-end fuel cycle stages, the characterization of spent fuel and the waste streams from a molten salt small modular reactor is crucial for the deployment of small modular reactors based on this technology. This work focuses on the evaluation of spent fuel inventory and radioactive waste streams for a molten salt-type small modular reactor and the identification of steps/technologies to be applied for the safe management of characterised radioactive wastes.
| Country OR International Organization | Türkiye |
|---|---|
| Email address | banubulutacar@hacettepe.edu.tr |
| Confirm that the work is original and has not been published anywhere else | YES |
