b'Figure 2. SNF+HLW activity contributions at 100,000 years after fuel discharge versus enrichmentof these pin-cell level reactivity coef- at 100 and 100,000 years after fuel ficients with those from the AP-1000discharge as that of fuel enrichments design control document (DCD) fullbelow 5% 235U. Richards contribu-core data, both showing comparabletions also included a discussion of similarities. We also performed a fuelburnable absorber incorporation to cycle performance analysis of thecontrol the expected BOL excess reac-considered enrichment cases. Thistivity of HALEU to the state-of-knowl-fuel cycle evaluation included evalu- edge of the AFC. We used a simple ating the natural resource utilization,approach to quantify the susceptibility nuclear waste management, andto pulverization (associated with HBS environmental impacts associatedformation at burnup71 MWd/KgU) with operating these HALEU fuels in[4] under accident scenarios with PWRs. The general takeaway from thisincreasing enrichment for these PWR fuel cycle evaluation was that resourceHALEU fuel cycles. These contribu-utilization and environmental impactstions (Figure 3) analyzes the fraction were similar for all the enrichmentof pellet volume susceptible for cases when normalized per GWe-yearpulverization as a function of enrich-of energy. Further, nuclear wastement, and conservative results showed metrics (Figure 2) showed thatthat this becomes an increasing issue HALEU had similar spent fuel activitywith increasing enrichment.118 2020|AFC ACCOMPLISHMENTS'