Benchmarking Molten Salt Reactors Modelling for Americium Transmutation in Fuel Cycle Simulation Studies
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The ISAC Project (Innovative System for Actinide Conversion) is a collaboration between five French nuclear corporations and institutions (CEA, CNRS, EDF, Framatome and Orano).It aims to identify the potential and the technological limitations of minor actinides transmutation -americium in particular -in molten salt reactors.This project, started in 2022, is partially funded by the "France 2030" investment plan -for a total budget of 26 M€.As part of this project, a benchmark on fuel cycle simulation tools is carried out to compare the modelling of molten salt reactors in each participant's code on simplified trajectories.Their impact on the fuel cycle, when used for americium transmutation, is then assessed.This work presents the hypotheses used for this benchmark and a comparison of the first results of interest.
DOI: 10.15669/pnst.8.143
Authors: Camille LAGUERRE, Bertrand CARLIER, Paul SERVELL, Paul-Edouard DUFOUR, David LECARPENTIER, Louiliam CLOT, A. Roth, Léa TILLARD, Elsa MERLE
Institutions: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, CEA Cadarache, Framatome (Germany), Framatome (France), Électricité de France (France), EDF Lab Paris-Saclay (France), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules, Orano (France)
Language: English
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4415393840