Research Article
Feasibility Study of 1/3 Thorium-Plutonium Mixed Oxide Core
Table 5
The plutonium consumption for UOX, 1/3 Th-MOX, and full Th-MOX core.
| | Pu-238 | Pu-239 | Pu-240 | Pu-241 | Pu-242 | Total Pu |
| UOX core | | | | | | | BOC (kg) | 4.5 | 273.9 | 82.0 | 52.0 | 14.4 | 426.8 | EOC (kg) | 11.2 | 413.2 | 141.9 | 92.2 | 32.3 | 690.8 | Consumption per cycle (kg) | −6.7 | −139.3 | −59.9 | −40.2 | −18.0 | −264.1 | Consumption per reactor-year (kg) | −6.9 | −144.4 | −62.1 | −41.6 | −18.6 | −273.8 | Relative consumption per year (%) | −153.9 | −52.7 | −75.7 | −80.1 | −129.8 | −39.6 | 1/3 Th-MOX core | | | | | | | BOC (kg) | 32.7 | 784.7 | 428.7 | 267.6 | 99.8 | 1613.6 | EOC (kg) | 34.8 | 575.4 | 409.4 | 272.2 | 135.1 | 1427.0 | Consumption per cycle (kg) | −2.1 | 209.3 | 19.3 | −4.6 | −35.3 | 186.7 | Consumption per reactor-year (kg) | −1.7 | 166.4 | 15.4 | −3.6 | −28.0 | 148.4 | Relative consumption per year (%) | −5.2 | 21.2 | 3.6 | −1.4 | −28.1 | 10.4 | Full Th-MOX core | | | | | | | BOC (kg) | 165.5 | 3019.3 | 1973.7 | 1216.3 | 496.2 | 6871.0 | EOC (kg) | 165.1 | 1812.4 | 1742.3 | 1106.2 | 554.7 | 5380.6 | Consumption per cycle (kg) | 0.5 | 1206.9 | 231.4 | 110.1 | −58.6 | 1490.3 | Consumption per reactor-year (kg) | 0.3 | 862.4 | 165.3 | 78.7 | −41.8 | 1064.8 | Relative consumption per year (%) | 0.2 | 28.6 | 8.4 | 6.5 | −8.4 | 19.8 |
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