Research Article

INPRO Activities on Development of Advanced Tools to Support Judgment Aggregation for Comparative Evaluation of Nuclear Energy Systems

Table 1

Considered nuclear energy system evolution scenarios.

Nuclear energy system scenarioScenario denotation
(reactor technologies mix)1
Color code

1 BAUL1H1
2 BAU+L1L2H1
3 BAU+, FR “break-even”L1L2H1F1
4 BAU+, FR “medium-BR”, medium-burn-upL1L2H1F2
5 BAU+, FR “medium-BR”, high-burn-upL1L2H1F3
6 BAU+, FR “break-even” and ADSL1L2H1F1A1
7 BAU+, FR “medium-BR”, medium-burn-up and ADSL1L2H1F2A1
8 BAU+, FR “medium-BR”, high-burn-up and ADSL1L2H1F3A1
9 BAU+, FR “break-even” and MSRL1L2H1F1M1
10 BAU+, FR “medium-BR”, medium-burn-up and MSRL1L2H1F2M1
11 BAU+, FR “medium-BR”, high-burn-up and MSRL1L2H1F3M1

L1: light water reactor (LWR) with low burn-up (45 GWday/t); L2: LWR with high burn-up (60 GWday/t); H1: heavy water reactor (HWR, typical current prototype); F1: “break-even” fast reactor (FR) with breeding ratio BR~1.0; F2: FR with medium BR (BR~1.2), medium burn-up (~31 GWday/t); F3: FR with medium BR (BR~1.2), high burn-up (~54 GWday/t); A1: accelerator driven system (ADS) for minor actinide (MA) burning; M1: molten salt reactor (MSR) for MA burning.