OR methodologies toward the deployment of better fast reactor and fuel cycle system

Shiotani, Hiroki

Recently, A project, which is called "FaCT project", has been initiated which aims to the deployment of fast breede reactor(FR) cycle system. Adding to the element technologies development and the demonstration of the innovative technologies through equipment tests, synthetic evaluation methodologies of FR cycle system including scenario study, DCF method, Analytic Hierarchical Process, real options approach, supply chain management, etc. are under development. It is necessary for many people to make a large scale long-term efforts to deploy FR cycles; and more utilization of OR is expected for deriving the benefits from the modeling of the nuclear energy systems and the knowledge management of them.