Economic Evaluation on the MOX Fuel in the Closed Fuel Cycle

The mixed oxide (MOX) fuel is one of the most important fuels for the advanced reactors in the future. It is flexible to be applied either in the thermal reactor like pressurized water reactor (PWR) or in the fast reactor (FR). This paper compares the two approaches from the view of fuel cost. Two f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Youqi Zheng, Hongchun Wu, Liangzhi Cao, Shizhuang Jia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/698019