Study of Iodine-129 transmutation in nuclear reactors

Abstract

Nuclear wastes are a major obstacle to the use of the nuclear power with safety. A lot of scientific efforts are devoted to find definitive solutions to this problem. One of the ways envisaged is Separation followed by Transmutation, whose principle is based on the transformation of the long-lived radioactive element by a nuclear reaction to another less radioactively element or stable. The objective of this work is to study the destruction of fission products in four high flux nuclear reactors. It takes as an example of application Iodine-129. Its transmutation efficiency is obtained from the calculation code ChainSolver 2.34. The results are then compared to choose the best reactor to destroy iodine.