Global Nuclear Energy Partnership [GNEP]

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Global Nuclear Energy Partnership GNEP

• Brief history of nuclear power
• GEN IV reactors
• Nuclear fuel cycles
• GNEP concept
• Activities at UIUC

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History of Nuclear Power
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• Nuclear Power 2010 Program
• Joint government/industry cost-shared effort.
• Identify sites for new nuclear power plants.
• Develop and bring to market advanced
• nuclear plant technologies.
• Evaluate the business case for building
• new nuclear power plants.
• Demonstrate untested regulatory and licensing
• processes.

GEN III
GEN III
From the NRC
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GEN IV Roadmap
From DOE via Wikipedia
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GEN IV Reactor Concepts
From DOE via Wikipedia
FAST
THERMAL
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Nuclear Fuel Cycle
UOX MOX
UF6
LEU
U3O8
The Future of Nuclear Power, MIT
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Open Once-through cycle
Major actinides U, Pu Minor actinides Np, Am,
Cm, Bk, Cf
The Future of Nuclear Power, MIT
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Closed One recycle of Pu w/thermal only
Proliferation Concerns
The Future of Nuclear Power, MIT
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Closed Recycling with thermal and fast reactors
The Future of Nuclear Power, MIT
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Closed recycle with breeder reactor
Duderstadt and Hamilton
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Effect of closing the fuel cycle
NEA News 2002, no. 20.2
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Integrated Approach
Global Partners
DOE
US Industry
2010 Program
NERI
GNEP
AFCI
NHI
GEN IV
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The GNEP Concept
GNEP Technical Development Plan, 2007
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Original China, France, Japan, Russia, United
States. New Australia, Bulgaria, Ghana, Hungary,
Jordan, ROK Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Poland,
Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine
Global Partnership
P. Lisowski, 2007
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Closing the fuel cycle with fast reactors
P. Lisowski, 2007
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Effect of closing the fuel cycleresource
conservation
DOE Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee,
2002
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Effect of closing the fuel cycle
NEA News 2002, no. 20.2
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Effect of closing the fuel cycleactinide burning
Cm-245
long-lived
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Reduction in repository holding times
P. Lisowski, 2007
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Activities at UIUC

• DOE-funded study of UO2 thin-film matrix
  w/actinide surrogates.
• DOE-funded study of CeO2, UO2, and CeUO2 fuel
  types.
• DOE-funded materials testing for very high
  temperature gas-cooled reactors.
• DOE-funded fast converter reactor analysis
  laboratory.
• DOE-funded project to determine worldwide spent
  fuel estimates.
• DOE-funded project to couple CINDER (burn-up) to
  CHAD (fluid dynamics).

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Radioisotope contribution to spent
fuel radiotoxicity
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