[3E08-12] Hydride fuel

[3E10] Development of MA-Zr hydride for early realization of transmutation of nuclear wastes (3)

(3)Research on availability and realizability for transmutation core with MA-Zr hydride (Ⅲ)

*Koki Hibi¹, Kazuo Ikeda², Kunihiro Ito², Kenji Konashi³ (1. MFBR, 2. NDC, 3. Tohoku Univ.)

Keywords:Transmutation, Zirconium hydride, Nuclear design, Minor actinide, Americium

An advanced transmutation method, with a small MA-transmutation fast reactor which loads the target subassembly containing MA-Zr hydride, is being studied to reduce environment burden due to nuclear wastes. This paper describes that the possibility of parallel nuclear transmutation by addition of Cm in the Am target and Np in the core fuel, from the viewpoint of burden reduction of reprocessing by omission of MA separation process was examined and the feasibility was obtained.