Actinide-Only Burnup Credit for Pressurized Water Reactor Spent Nuclear Fuel—I: Methodology Overview

Assessment of Reactivity Margins and Loading Curves for PWR Burnup Credit Cask Designs

“…Various validation approaches have been proposed, including both independent (Refs. 3,6,8,42,43) and integral (Refs. 3, 5, 44) validation of the depletion and criticality methods.…”