REFERENCES
- J. C. MARK, “Explosive Properties of Reactor-Grade Plutonium,” Sci. Global Security, 4, 111 (1993).
- G. KESSLER, “Plutonium Denaturing by 238Pu,” Nucl. Sci. Eng., 155, 53 (2007).
- C. H. M. BROEDERS and G. KESSLER, “Fuel Cycle Options for the Production and Utilization of Denatured Plutonium,” Nucl. Sci. Eng., 156, 1 (2007).
- A. DeVOLPI, “Denaturing Fissile Materials,” Prog. Nucl. Energy, 10, 2, 161 (1980).
- C. D. HEISING-GOODMAN, “An Evaluation of the Plutonium Denaturing Concept as an Effective Safeguards Method,” Nucl. Technol., 50, 242 (1980).
- P. WYDLER, W. HEER, P. STILLER, and H. U. WEGNER, “A Uranium-Plutonium-Neptunium Fuel Cycle to Produce Isotopically Denatured Plutonium,” Nucl. Technol., 49, 115 (1980).
- S. K. AGHARA and C. A. BEARD, “Feasibility Study of a Proliferation-Resistant Fuel Form for Plutonium Recycling,” Nucl. Technol., 137, 1 (2002).
- Y. PERYOGA, H. SAGARA, M. SAITO, and A. EZOUBBTCHENKO, “Inherent Protection of Plutonium by Doping Minor Actinide in Thermal Neutron Spectra,” J. Nucl. Sci. Technol., 42, 442 (2005).
- A. C. LOMBARDI and C. A. PEREIRA, “Neutronic Evaluation of the Americium and Neptunium Co-Insertion in UO2 Fuel,” Ann. Nucl. Energy, 30, 775 (2003).
- Y. RONEN and Y. A. KIMHI, “A ‘Nonproliferating’ Nuclear Fuel for Light Water Reactors,” Nucl. Technol., 96, 133 (1990).
- D. GRENECHE, R. VINOCHE, M. DELPHEN, and H. GOLFIER, “Neptunium as a Tool for Reducing Proliferation Risks with Plutonium: A Technical Analysis of Its Efficiency and Drawbacks,” Proc. Int. Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP ’06), Reno, Nevada, June 4–8, 2006, American Nuclear Society (2006) (CD-ROM).
- L. GOLYAND, Y. RONEN, and E. SHWAGERAUS, “The Potential Use of 241Am as Proliferation Resistant Burnable Poison,” Proc. Int. Conf. Physics of Reactors, Interlaken, Switzerland, September 14–19, 2008.
- L. GOLYAND, E. SHWAGERAUS, and Y. RONEN, “Effect of 24195Am(n, γ) Reaction Branching Ratio on Fuel Cycle and Reactor Design Characteristics,” Nucl. Sci. Eng., 161, 289 (2009).
- R. SANCHEZ, D. LOAIZA, R. KIMPLAND, D. HAYES, C. CAPPIELLO, and M. CHADWICK, “Criticality of a 237Np Sphere,” Nucl. Sci. Eng., 158, 1 (2008).
- “In-Core Fuel Management Benchmarks for PHWRs,” IAEA-TECDOC-887, International Atomic Energy Agency (June 1996).
- I. PATRULESCU, M. CONSTANTIN, E. RADES, and V BALACEANU, “Development of CANDU Reactor Physics Calculation System Based on WIMS Code,” Ann. Nucl. Energy, 24, 1105 (1997).
- V. ANTHONY and J. R. NERO, Guidebook to Nuclear Reactor, University of California Press, Berkeley, California (1979).
- “Validation of WIMS-AECL Reactivity Device Calculations for CANDU Reactor,” KAERI/TR-876/97, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (June 1997).
- B. ROUBEN, “CANDU Fuel Management Course,” Atomic Energy of Canada (2003).
- E. FRIDMAN, E. SHWAGERAUS, and A. GALPERIN, “Implementation of Multi-Group Cross-Section Methodology in BGCore MC-Depletion Code,” Proc. Int. Conf. Physics of Reactors, Interlaken, Switzerland, September 14–19, 2008.
- “MCNP-4A, a Monte Carlo Neutron and Photon Trans-port Code System,” CCC-200, Los Alamos National Labora-tory (Oct. 1991).
- B. ROUBEN, “Introduction to Reactor Physics,” Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (Sep. 2002).
- B. ROUBEN, “The Physics of CANDU Reactors,” Proc. 25th Conf. Nuclear Societies in Israel, Dead Sea, Israel, February 16–18, 2010.
- G. KESSLER, “Proliferation Resistance of Americium Originating from Spent Irradiated Reactor Fuel of Pressurized Water Reactors, Fast Reactors, and Accelerator-Driven Systems with Different Fuel Cycle Options,” Nucl. Sci. Eng., 159, 56 (2008).
- D. ALBRIGHT and K. KRAMER, “Neptunium 237 and Americium: World Inventories and Proliferation Concerns,” Institute for Science and International Security (Aug. 2005).