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Title: High flux particle bed reactor systems for rapid transmutation of actinides and long lived fission products

Abstract

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.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
5440448
Report Number(s):
BNL-46312; CONF-911107-11
ON: DE91015430
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76CH00016
Resource Type:
Conference
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
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; ACTINIDE BURNER REACTORS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; ACTINIDES; FISSION PRODUCTS; PEBBLE BED REACTORS; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; REPROCESSING; ELEMENTS; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; FAST REACTORS; GAS COOLED REACTORS; HOMOGENEOUS REACTORS; ISOTOPES; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; METALS; PROCESSING; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; REACTORS; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SOLID HOMOGENEOUS REACTORS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; 052001* - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Processing; 220600 - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Research, Test & Experimental Reactors; 210300 - Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Graphite Moderated

Citation Formats

Todosow, M, Ludewig, H, Takahashi, H, and Powell, J. High flux particle bed reactor systems for rapid transmutation of actinides and long lived fission products. United States: N. p., 1991. Web.
Todosow, M, Ludewig, H, Takahashi, H, & Powell, J. High flux particle bed reactor systems for rapid transmutation of actinides and long lived fission products. United States.
Todosow, M, Ludewig, H, Takahashi, H, and Powell, J. 1991. "High flux particle bed reactor systems for rapid transmutation of actinides and long lived fission products". United States.
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abstractNote = {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.},
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year = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991},
month = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991}
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