High flux particle bed reactor systems for rapid transmutation of actinides and long lived fission products
The technology to reprocess nuclear waste has evolved over the years through the PUREX/TRUEX/CURE processes to a level where partitioning into relatively pure streams'' of Pu, actinides, and fission products, respectively, is feasible. If the resulting Pu and actinides could then be transmuted into stable (or short-lived) isotopes, the remaining waste product would have an ingestion toxicity below that of uranium ore after {approximately}300 years. Therefore, burning/transmutation of actinides and other long lived fission products (LLFP) would have a significant beneficial impact on the waste disposal problems. An initial assessment of a number of actinide/LLFP burner concepts based on the Particle Bed Reactor (PBR) will be described. 3 refs., 1 tab.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 5440448
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-46312; CONF-911107-11; ON: DE91015430
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), San Francisco, CA (United States), 10-15 Nov 1991
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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