DEVELOPMENT OF DYNAMIC MEANS FOR TECHNNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE THE MANAGEMENT OF NETWORK SYSTEM OF CLOSED FUEL CYCLE IN NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY

A. Ignatov, S. Subbotin, P. Alekseev, National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”, Russia

23rd Symposium of AER on VVER Reactor Physics and Reactor Safety (2013, Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia)
Innovative technologies and methods

Abstract

The first of all this report represents the formed analytical techno-economic model of
integrated quantitative analysis of (local) performance and operating characteristics of a
distributed system consisting of production units (nodes) of the closed fuel cycle nuclear
power. The proposed simulation model takes into account all the important process blocks of
two conjugate cascade of nuclear reactors at the “fast – thermal” neutrons. The structure of the
simulation model for each stage of a typical nuclear power plant is taken into account
individually distributed structure of the interacting of process nodes (units): 1) the production
of fuels (fuel elements), 2) energy production by nuclear power reactor facilities of standard,
as energy producers fissile isotopes (U-235, U -238, Pu-239, Th-232), 3) regeneration of
spent nuclear fuel materials, 4) the management of radioactive waste, 5) decommissioning of
nuclear power block structures. The corresponding structural and complex system is a closed
multi-level (hierarchical) information-analytical model with multiple feedback loops, taking
into account information about the deterministic estimates of parameters (performance status)
network of production nodes.

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