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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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ARG-US Remote Monitoring Systems: Use Cases and Applications in Nuclear Facilities and During Transportation
As highlighted in the Spring 2024 issue of Radwaste Solutions, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are developing and deploying ARG-US—meaning “Watchful Guardian”—remote monitoring systems technologies to enhance the safety, security, and safeguards (3S) of packages of nuclear and other radioactive material during storage, transportation, and disposal.
A. M. M. Ali, Hanaa H. Abou-Gabal, Nader M. A. Mohamed, Ayah E. Elshahat
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 195 | Number 2 | February 2021 | Pages 203-213
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2020.1799604
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This work aimed to develop accelerator-driven systems (ADSs) with a subcritical thorium assembly for fuel breeding and clean energy utilization by using several seed fuels. The ADS reactor core was loaded with three different fuel types, namely, reprocessed fuel, UN, and UO2 (seed fuel) associated separately with ThO2 fuel (blanket) in a heterogeneous approach. The Monte Carlo code MCNPX 2.7.0 has been employed to calculate neutronic parameters such as the effective multiplication coefficient (Keff), the nuclear fuel evolution during the burnup for every case, and the power fraction from seed and blanket fuels. The results indicate that the utilization of thorium (without any contents of 233U at the beginning of cycle) with reprocessed fuel allowed more 233U production than the UN and UO2 cases but with shorter cycle length. Introducing thorium fuel with the UN into the ADS core presented an efficient method to produce thermal power with the longest cycle length approaching 20 years.
