It is also desirable that burnup should be as uniform as possible both within individual fuel elements and from one element to another within a fuel charge.
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"' Serpent "'is a continuous-energy Monte Carlo reactor physics code capable for highly detailed, three-dimensional burnup calculation.
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Burnup played once for the England football team but is more renowned for playing over 200 first-class cricket matches, mainly for Kent County Cricket Club.
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Very low fuel burnup is essential for the production of weapons-grade plutonium for nuclear weapons, in order to produce plutonium that is predominantly 242 Pu.
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Based on the concept's 2.2 % burnup fraction it could achieve a pure fusion product exhaust velocity of ~ 3, 000 km / s.
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The amount of energy extracted from nuclear fuel is called its burnup, which is expressed in terms of the heat energy produced per initial unit of fuel weight.
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For high burnup used fuel, the concentrations of the higher plutonium isotopes will be higher than the low burnup fuel that is reprocessed to obtain weapons grade plutonium.
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For high burnup used fuel, the concentrations of the higher plutonium isotopes will be higher than the low burnup fuel that is reprocessed to obtain weapons grade plutonium.
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Similarly, in fuel cycles with nuclear reprocessing, the amount of high-level waste for a given amount of energy generated is not closely related to burnup.
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Burnup is one of the key factors determining the isotopic composition of spent nuclear fuel, the others being its initial composition and the neutron spectrum of the reactor.
