Accelerator-based conversion (ABC) of reactor and weapons plutonium

Conference · Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993

OSTI ID:10159382

Jensen, R J; Trapp, T J; Arthur, E D; Bowman, C D; Davidson, J W; Linford, R K

An accelerator-based conversion (ABC) system is presented that is capable of rapidly burning plutonium in a low-inventory sub-critical system. The system also returns fission power to the grid and transmutes troublesome long-lived fission products to short lived or stable products. Higher actinides are totally fissioned. The system is suited not only to controlled, rapid burning of excess weapons plutonium, but to the long range application of eliminating or drastically reducing the world total inventory of plutonium. Deployment of the system will require the successful resolution of a broad range of technical issues introduced in the paper.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 10159382
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-93-1908; CONF-9309151-1; ON: DE93014462; TRN: 93:016389
• Resource Relation: Conference: Global `93: international conference and technology exhibition,Seattle, WA (United States),12-17 Sep 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1993]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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