Technological study report on synthetic evaluation for FBR cycle; The report of the feasibility studyies on commercialized FBR cycle system (Phase I)

not registered ; Ohtaki, Akira ; Kofuji, Hirohide  ; not registered ; not registered

This report is intended to explain the outline of the characteristic evaluation work on various FR cycle system concepts, following the design work, in the 1st phase of the JNC's "Feasibility Study on Commercialized Fast Reactor Cycle System (the F/S)" (from 1999 to March 2001). The purpose of this characteristic evaluation is to reveal the performance of candidate FR cycle systems. For this synthetic estimation, six viewpoints, such as Economics, Effective utilization of uranium resource, Reduction of environmental impact, Safety, Proliferation resistance, and Technological feasibility, are selected. In addition, aiming at the practical use in phase 2, we examined an application to FBR research and development of cost benefit analysis method used for the policy evaluation. Furthermore, long-term nuclear material mass flow was analyzed and the scenario of "FBR application for the hydrogen production" is proposed, considering how FBR would be utilized for the 21st century. And, a database including the various documents & data used for evaluation was constructed.