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Table 5
Cooling time and americium content for the three strategies with sodium fast reactor studied here.
| Low then high quality | First irradiation | |||||
| Loaded mass Low quality vector (kg) | Am41 content (%) | Unloaded mass of Am (kg) | Cooling time to 7.5 kW (y) | Cooling time to 5 kW (y) | Cooling time to 2.5 kW (y) | |
| 2413 | 64.7 | 1480 | 12.4 | 34.9 | 98 | |
| Second irradiation | ||||||
| Loaded mass high quality vector (kg) | Am41 content (%) | Unloaded mass of Am (kg) | Cooling time to 7.5 kW (y) | Cooling time to 5 kW (y) | Cooling time to 2.5 kW (y) | |
| 2413 | 90.8 | 1456 | 5 | 25.4 | 212 | |
| High then low quality | First irradiation | |||||
| Loaded mass high quality vector (kg) | Am41 content (%) | Unloaded mass of Am (kg) | Cooling time to 7.5 kW (y) | Cooling time to 5 kW (y) | Cooling time to 2.5 kW (y) | |
| 2413 | 79.8 | 1466 | 7.1 | 30.8 | 133.6 | |
| Second irradiation | ||||||
| Loaded mass Low quality vector (kg) | Am41 content (%) | Unloaded mass of Am (kg) | Cooling time to 7.5 kW (y) | Cooling time to 5 kW (y) | Cooling time to 2.5 kW (y) | |
| 2413 | 75.5 | 1470 | 8.7 | 32.2 | 119.7 | |
| MIX | First irradiation | |||||
| Loaded mass MIX vector (kg) | Am41 content (%) | Unloaded mass of Am (kg) | Cooling time to 7.5 kW (y) | Cooling time to 5 kW (y) | Cooling time to 2.5 kW (y) | |
| 2413 | 72.3 | 1473 | 9.8 | 33.2 | 112.1 | |
| Second irradiation | ||||||
| Loaded mass MIX vector (kg) | Am41 content (%) | Unloaded mass of Am (kg) | Cooling time to 7.5 kW (y) | Cooling time to 5 kW (y) | Cooling time to 2.5 kW (y) | |
| 2413 | 83.1 | 1463 | 5.9 | 29.6 | 149 | |
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