Research Article
Economic Viability of Metallic Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Fuel in Korea
Table 3
Main constraints of prime process.
| | Category of process | Assumption |
| | Head-end cell | Annual assemblies treated in head-end cell: 930 | | Recovery factor of fuel: 99.99% | | Removal rate for Na, Cs, Sr, Ba, I: 99% |
| | Electrorefining | Annual throughput: 32.94 tHM | | Throughput per batch: 45.75 kgHM/batch | | Volume of molten salt: 2,900 kg LiCl-KCl/batch—1unit | | Initial UCl3 concentration: 9 wt% | | Recovery factor of uranium in electrorefining: 99.67% |
| | Electrowinning | Composition in molten salt: Pu/U > 3 | | U coefficient: Usalt/Ucd = 1.13 | | Recovery factor of TRU in RAR (residual actinide recovery): 0.99 |
| | Salt waste treatment | Annual solidification volume of nuclides and concentrated salt: 3,895 kg | | Annual solidification volume of RE/TRU oxide: 870 kg |
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