Abstract
Correct prediction of the fission products inventory in irradiated nuclear fuels is essential for accurate estimation of fuel burnup, establishing proper requirements for spent fuel transportation and storage, materials accountability and nuclear forensics. Such prediction is impossible without accurate knowledge of neutron induced fission yields. The uncertainty of the fission yields reported in the ENDF/B-VII.0 library is not uniform across all of the data and much of the improvement is desired for certain fissioning isotopes and fission products. We discuss our measurements of cumulative fission yields in nuclear fuels irradiated in thermal and fast reactor spectra using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry.
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The authors would like to thank James Sommers, Marcos Jimenez, Cal Morgan and Michael Rodriguez (INL) for preparation and analysis of the fuel samples; Karl Grimm and Richard McKnight (ANL) for reactor physics analysis of EBR-II experiments; Misti Lillo and Gray Chang (INL) for the reactor physics analysis of the ATR experiments. We would also like to acknowledge RERTR Program and EBR-II Spent Fuel Treatment Program for irradiated fuel samples. This manuscript has been authored by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC07-05ID14517 with the US Department of Energy. The US Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US Government purposes.
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Glagolenko, I., Hilton, B., Giglio, J. et al. Fission yield measurements by inductively coupled plasma mass-spectrometry. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 282, 651–655 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-009-0209-1
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