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

• Glavni autor: Kessler, Günter (auth)
• Format: Elektronički Poglavlje knjige
• Jezik: engleski
• Izdano: KIT Scientific Publishing 2017
• Teme: Technology: general issues; Enrichment; Anreicherung; Wiederaufarbeitung; hochangereichertes Uran; Plutonium; Proliferation; Reprocessing; high enriched Uranium.Proliferation
• Online pristup: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 tansmutat...