An accelerator-driven reactor for meeting future energy demand
Conference
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OSTI ID:563310
Fissile fuel can be produced at a high rate using an accelerator-driven Pu-fueled subcritical fast reactor which avoids encountering a shortage of Pu during a high growth rate in the production of nuclear energy. Furthermore, the necessity of the early introduction of the fast reactor can be moderated. Subcritical operation provides flexible nuclear energy options along with high neutron economy for producing the fuel, for transmuting high-level waste such as minor actinides, and for efficiently converting excess and military Pu into proliferation-resistant fuel.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 563310
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-64967; CONF-9709160-; ON: DE98001633; BR: 820101000; TRN: 98:002775
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International Atomic Energy Agency Technical Committee meeting on feasibility and motivation for hybrid concepts for nuclear generation and transmutation, Madrid (Spain), 17-19 Sep 1997; Other Information: PBD: [1997]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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