Benchmarking Molten Salt Reactors Modelling for Americium Transmutation in Fuel Cycle Simulation Studies
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.
Authors
- Philippe Dufour (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3694-2866)
- B. Carlier
- P. Servell
- Camille Laguerre
- E. Merle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9963-8359)
- Léa Tillard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2960-4118)
- Armin Roth
- David Lecarpentier
- Louiliam Clot
Institutions
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (FR)
- Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST) (MA)
- Framatome (Germany) (DE)
- Électricité de France (France) (FR)
- Orano (France) (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Progress in Nuclear Science and Technology
- Published
- 2025-09-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.15669/pnst.8.143
- Primary Topic
- Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00