Fuel Burnup Analysis

During reactor operation, neutron interactions with fuel give rise to various nuclear reactions such as fission of fissile nuclides, conversion of fertile nuclides into fissile ones, and production of FPs. This section solves the burnup equation to determine atomic number densities of fissile and fertile nuclides in fuel, and considers the changes with fuel burnup. Fission products are mainly treated in Sect. 1.2.

Y. Oka (ed.), Nuclear Reactor Design, An Advanced Course in Nuclear Engineering 2, DOI 10.1007/978-4-431-54898-0_1, © Authors 2014

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