Proliferation-Resistance Assessment of a CANDU Reactor Loaded with the DUPIC Fuel Using New User Requirement-1 Indicators of the INPRO Methodology

Since mid of 2000, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) continues to proceed an International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles (INPRO) for fulfilling the energy need of the 21st century along with its economics, sustainability, environment, safety of nuclear installations, waste management, and proliferation resistance. After the results of the INPRO Phase 1B 1st part were produced for the 6 national and 8 individual case studies, the INPRO methodology was updated with 2 Basic Principles (BP) and 5 User Requirements (UR) in the proliferation resistance (PR) area. From the beginning of 2005, the INPRO Phase 1B 2nd part was initiated, aiming at assessing the applicability of the updated INPRO methodology to the Closed Nuclear Fuel Cycle with Fast Reactor (CNFC-FR) analysis performed by an international joint study and the whole DUPIC fuel cycle (from the uranium mining and milling to the permanent disposal of the spent DUPIC fuel) analysis performed by Korea. In this study, the updated INPRO methodology in the INPRO Phase 1B report is reviewed and the new Indicators of User Requirements (UR) for Basic Principle (BP)-1 are modified to appropriately assess the Proliferation Resistance (PR) and to strengthen the Safeguardability of an Innovative Nuclear System (INS). Then the PR characteristics of a CANDU plant loaded with the DUPIC fuel are assessed by using the new Indicators