Material attractiveness analysis of protected plutonium production for fast breeder reactors

Permana, S.; Suzuki, Mitsutoshi; Saito, Masaki*

Material attractiveness concepts for evaluating the level of proliferation resistance of nuclear fuel have been evolving and can be useful for determining general rules to assess the potential use of nuclear material for explosive devices. The two approaches examined here for evaluating material attractiveness are the attractiveness (ATTR) and figure of merit (FOM) concepts. Similar trend of material attractiveness level with ATTR and FOM is obtained by introducing MA doping in the blanket region and these loading MA is effective to reduce the material attractiveness level to practically unusable level of ATTR and low attractiveness level of FOM2.