LEADER 04698nam 22006735 450 001 9910373929903321 005 20200702023703.0 010 $a981-13-9901-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-13-9901-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000010012064 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6001338 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-13-9901-5 035 $a(PPN)242817793 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010012064 100 $a20191223d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPlutonium$b[electronic resource] $eHow Nuclear Power?s Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare /$fby Frank von Hippel, Masafumi Takubo, Jungmin Kang 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (193 pages) $cillustrations, maps 311 $a981-13-9900-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1 Overview -- 2 The dream: a future powered by plutonium -- 3 Civilian plutonium separation and nuclear-weapon proliferation -- 4 Continuation of plutonium separation without breeder reactors -- 5 A much worse accident that almost happened in Fukushima: A fire in a dense-packed spent fuel pool -- 6 Early dry-cask storage: A safer alternative to dense-packed pools and reprocessing -- 7 Deep disposal of spent fuel without reprocessing -- 8 The case for a ban on reprocessing -- Bibliography -- Index. . 330 $aThis book provides a readable and thought-provoking analysis of the issues surrounding nuclear fuel reprocessing and fast-neutron reactors, including discussion of resources, economics, radiological risk and resistance to nuclear proliferation. It describes the history and science behind reprocessing, and gives an overview of the status of reprocessing programmes around the world. It concludes that such programs should be discontinued. While nuclear power is seen by many as the only realistic solution to the carbon emission problem, some national nuclear establishments have been pursuing development and deployment of sodium-cooled plutonium breeder reactors, and plutonium recycling. Its proponents argue that this system would offer significant advantages relative to current light water reactor technology in terms of greater uranium utilization efficiency, and that separating out the long-lived plutonium and other transuranics from spent fuel and fissioning them in fast reactors would greatly reduce the duration of the toxicity of radioactive waste. However, the history of efforts to deploy this system commercially in a number of countries over the last six decades has been one of economic and technical failure and, in some cases, was used to mask clandestine nuclear weapon development programs. Covering topics of significant public interest including nuclear safety, fuel storage, environmental impact and the spectre of nuclear terrorism, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of the issue for nuclear engineers, policy analysts, government officials and the general public. . 606 $aPhysics 606 $aEnergy 606 $aNuclear energy 606 $aNuclear chemistry 606 $aScience?Social aspects 606 $aPopular Science in Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q29000 606 $aPopular Science in Energy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q35000 606 $aNuclear Energy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/113000 606 $aNuclear Chemistry$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/C31000 606 $aSocietal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P34000 615 0$aPhysics. 615 0$aEnergy. 615 0$aNuclear energy. 615 0$aNuclear chemistry. 615 0$aScience?Social aspects. 615 14$aPopular Science in Physics. 615 24$aPopular Science in Energy. 615 24$aNuclear Energy. 615 24$aNuclear Chemistry. 615 24$aSocietal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education. 676 $a621.48335 700 $avon Hippel$b Frank$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0928598 702 $aTakubo$b Masafumi$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 702 $aKang$b Jungmin$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910373929903321 996 $aPlutonium$92509552 997 $aUNINA