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Evaluating Material Attractiveness of Minor Actinide Nuclear Fuel Intended for a Waste Transmutation Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Applied Nuclear Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3473-3750
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Applied Nuclear Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8207-3462
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Applied Nuclear Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6596-1828
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Applied Nuclear Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5133-6829
2025 (English)In: Nuclear Technology, ISSN 0029-5450, E-ISSN 1943-7471, Vol. 211, no 2, p. 344-357Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Long-lived high-level waste from commercial nuclear power reactors is a problem that concerns stakeholders and scientists working in the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. Nuclear waste transmutation is under investigation to tackle this problem, transforming nuclides that represent a long-term source of radioactivity, radiotoxicity, and heat into short-lived or stable nuclides. However, the transmutation process will require that several long-lived isotopes be separated from the spent nuclear fuel, which raises proliferation concerns.In this paper, we perform an investigation of the attractiveness characteristics related to the material used in a lead-cooled fast reactor system concept designed to burn minor actinides before and after irradiation. The materials evaluated are separated uranium, neptunium, plutonium, americium, and curium. We also evaluated grouped product materials, neptunium + americium and neptunium + plutonium. Additionally, we present potential safeguards and physical protection implications for the proposed materials. The main conclusion of this paper is that the separated neptunium and plutonium generated by the fast reactor are materials that deserve attention mainly related to physical protection measures.

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Taylor & Francis, 2025. Vol. 211, no 2, p. 344-357
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Nuclear material attractiveness, nuclear safeguards, physical protection, lead-cooled reactor, nuclear waste transmutation
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Subatomic Physics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-554782DOI: 10.1080/00295450.2024.2326374ISI: 001205234000001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85191041201OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-554782DiVA, id: diva2:1952882
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Swedish Research Council, 2412/2019-05011Available from: 2025-04-16 Created: 2025-04-16 Last updated: 2025-04-16Bibliographically approved

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