Abstract:
The portion of
239Pu in the nuclear fuel cycle of gas cooled high temperature reactor-pebble bed module(HTR-PM) is very important at the high level of burnup,which certainly influences the online burnup measurement.This problem was discussed in the paper.When the expected average burnup was 80 000(MW.d)/t(U),the calculation result showed that the energy release from
239Pu fission contributed to the burnup of fuel pebble by 26.7% and the acitivity of
137Cs and
134Cs from
239Pu fission is about 27.2% and 23.2%,respectively.Further analysis also showed that it is better to determinate the burnup by the activity of
137Cs in the pebble than by the activity ratio of
134Cs/
137Cs.