• Login
    View Item 
    •   eScholar Home
    • Faculty of Energy Systems & Nuclear Science
    • Master Theses & Projects
    • View Item
    •   eScholar Home
    • Faculty of Energy Systems & Nuclear Science
    • Master Theses & Projects
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Special isotopes of the FUGEN nuclear reactor

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    Davis_Timothy_R.pdf (3.707Mb)
    Date
    2022-04-01
    Author
    Davis, Timothy R.
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    The Canadian and Japanese nuclear regulatory bodies have shown dissimilarities between the isotopes considered to be of interest in decommissioning similarly styled heavy water reactors. This research examines the quantity of the isotopes that are of interest to the decommissioning of both the FUGEN nuclear power plant in Japan and the Pickering nuclear power plant in Canada and makes a comparison between them. This comparison is accomplished by modeling the fuel assemblies of both reactors in MCNP and performing depletion calculations on them to calculate the type and quantity of the produced fission and activation products, after which ratio comparisons are made between reactors. The FUGEN fuel has shown a greater isotope production than Pickering when normalized to fuel volume, with isotopes in FUGEN showing up to forty-five times the concentration when compared per unit volume with many isotopes produced in FUGEN not appearing in Pickering at all.
    URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/10155/1439
    Collections
    • Electronic Theses and Dissertations [1323]
    • Master Theses & Projects [79]

    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2016  DuraSpace
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Theme by 
    Atmire NV
     

     

    Browse

    All of eScholarCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2016  DuraSpace
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Theme by 
    Atmire NV