Proliferation-proof Uranium/Plutonium and Thorium/Uranium Fuel Cycles: Safeguards and Non-Proliferation

• Autore: Kessler Günter
• Pubblicazione: KIT Scientific Publishing, 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XXVI, 544 p. p.)
• Soggetto topico: Technology: general issues
• Soggetto non controllato: Anreicherung; Enrichment; high enriched Uranium.Proliferation; hochangereichertes Uran; Plutonium; Proliferation; Reprocessing; Wiederaufarbeitung
• Sommario/riassunto: Thermal and neutron physics analysis show that above certain concentrations of the isotope Pu-238 hypothetical nuclear explosive devices, made of reactor-grade plutonium, are technically not feasible. Future proliferation-proof fuel cycles are proposed which make use of methods of actinide tansmutation.Reactors operating in the thorium/uranium fuel cyce are loaded with <20% U-235 uranium fuel which can be made proliferation-proof against re-enrichment by adding a certain ppm level of U-232.
• Altri titoli varianti: Proliferation-proof Uranium/Plutonium and Thorium/Uranium Fuel Cycles
• Titolo autorizzato: Proliferation-proof Uranium
• ISBN: 1000054131
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910346771903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II