Autors: Naydenov, I. T., Filipov, K. B.
Title: Plutonium-containing Civilian Materials’ Attractiveness Analysis Using the ‘Figure of Merit’ Methodology
Keywords: figure of merit, fuel cycle, proliferation resistance

Abstract: In the recent years, non-proliferation of nuclear materials has become an important issue, regarding civilian fuel cycle’s development. The future nuclear energy systems’ and nuclear fuel cycles’ development should comply to nonproliferation criteria, and the materials that are used or discharged from the wide range of processes, involved in nuclear energy production, need to possess properties that make their usage in illicit nuclear explosives development extremely difficult, if not impossible. In the present article, a methodology, developed for assessing nuclear materials’ attractiveness for diversion from the civilian fuel cycle, is applied. This is done in order to analyse the usability of some plutonium-containing materials from the civilian fuel cycle, most notably the plutonium that could be produced in commercial pressurised water reactors and subsequently extracted in reprocessing plants.

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