Scenario Analysis

The NMB code [7] was employed for the scenario analysis. The code calculates material balance of 26 actinides (through Th to Cm, T1/2 > several days) in spent fuels with an accuracy comparable to the ORIGEN2 code. LWR, CANDU, gas-cooled reactor, several sodium-cooled FRs, and lead-bismuth-cooled ADS are available. Each reactor can be coupled with appropriate fuel such as UO2, MOX, ROX, Pu-nitride (PuN), and MA-nitride (MAN). Fission products are estimated by dividing them into several groups (iodine, rare gas, technetium and platinum group metals, strontium, cesium, and others). The number of waste packages and repos­itory size are determined by temperature analysis based on several repository layouts. Potential radiotoxicity that is defined as dose by direct ingestion can be also estimated.