Modeling and system analysis of fuel cycles for nuclear power sustainability (III): An integrated evaluation

作者：Gao Fanxing^*; Ko Won Il

来源：Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2014, 74: 79-90.

DOI：10.1016/j.pnucene.2014.02.003

• Nuclear fuel cycles
• MAUF
• RMAUF
• Fuel cycle policy
• AHP
• Pyroprocessing

Five main criteria are applied to evaluate the thirteen promising nuclear fuel cycle options to explore an generally optimum strategy, i.e., 1) the resource reliability evaluated by uranium consumption, 2) environment friendliness evaluated by radioactive waste generation, 3) proliferation resistance performance evaluated by plutonium inventory, 4) economic competitiveness evaluated by levelized generation cost, and 5) technological readiness evaluated by technology status. A new random multi-attribute utility RMAUF) has been developed to perform an integrated evaluation. By adopting two random generation procedures (i.e., random generation of single attribute utility scale and random generation of weighting coefficients), the RMAUF can therefore offer an objective statistic method to collect decisions from a sufficiently large number of group experts, avoiding one subjective opinion from a limited number of decision makers. Overall, sodium fast reactor fuel cycles shows predominant advantages over other fuel cycles, particularly Pyro-SFR(1.0) and PWR (MOX)-SFR (MOX, 1.00).

• 出版日期2014-7