Discussion post for Neutron Absorber plutonium shuffling recipes

[charleycrissman]

This is a place to discuss the neutron absorber shuffle recipes:

plutonium-shuffle-1
plutonium-shuffle-2
plutonium-shuffle-3
plutonium-shuffle-4

which were adapted from PyHM. The recipe plutonium-shuffle-2 has some use as a way to produce pu-238 as a primary product, but the other three recipes are all less efficient than simply voiding the unwanted "candies" and using the plutonium peroxide to run plutonium-seperation (sic).

For example, consider plutonium-shuffle-3:

This recipe consumes 35 plutonium peroxide to make 1 pu-239 (and a pu-241, which is irrelevant since it's simply an input to another equally bad shuffling recipe). The problem is that this 35 plutonium peroxide could have been used in plutonium-seperation:

Instead of getting 1 pu-239, we get 5.57, and if for some reason you really cared about that pu-241, well, we also get more of that output, as well as some valuable pu-238.

I would like to see these recipes buffed by reducing the amount of pu-peroxide required as input. I haven't run the numbers, but as a rough ballpark, I would say any amount over 5 pu-peroxide per shuffle is too much.