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By Erich R. Merz (auth.), Erich R. Merz, Carl E. Walter (eds.)
A survey of contemporary advancements within the box of plutonium disposal via the applying of complex nuclear platforms, either serious and subcritical. present nationwide R&D plans are summarized. The actinide-fuelled severe reactors are linked to keep watch over difficulties, due to the fact that they generally tend to have a small behind schedule neutron fraction coupled with a small Doppler influence and a favorable void coefficient. present considering is popping to accelerator-driven subcritical platforms for the transmutation of actinides.
The book's end is that a few of the platforms proposed are technically possible, even if now not but technically mature. The e-book provides a different precis and overview of all proper probabilities for burning surplus plutonium, provided via specialists from quite a few various disciplines and pursuits, together with the defence institution. the most obvious factor - the non-proliferation of nuclear guns - is essential, however the topic represents a posh technological problem that still calls for an overview in financial terms.
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First results of studies for plutonium incineration with a fast spectrum ADS will be presented. 1. Introduction One of the most challenging problems at the end of this century, from the technical, ecological and political point of view, is the back end of the nuclear fuel 27 E. R. Merz and C. E. ), Advanced Nuclear Systems Consuming Excess Plutonium. 27-42. © 1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers . Printed in the Netherlands. 28 cycle . Besides the existing considerable amounts of transurania and fission products from military and commercial applications of nuclear fission, nuclear power plants all over the world are producing nuclear waste, containing large amounts of potential new nuclear fuel.
It is supposed ,that the Complex-300 plant will reach its maximum productivity after three units of the BN-800 are put into operation. 6 tons. If three or four BN-800 units are put into operation, then both civil and ex-weapons plutonium could be "rendered harmless" by transforming it into spent fuel within first three or four decades of the forthcoming century. It is sufficient for this purpose to put off chemical reprocessing of the BN-800 spent fuel until the time when most amount of already extracted civilian plutonium and released ex-weapons plutonium is transformed into spent fuel.
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