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

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

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...

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Main Author: Kessler, Günter (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: KIT Scientific Publishing 2017
Subjects:
Technology: general issues
Enrichment
Anreicherung
Wiederaufarbeitung
hochangereichertes Uran
Plutonium
Proliferation
Reprocessing
high enriched Uranium.Proliferation
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (XXVI, 544 p. p.)
ISBN:KSP/1000054131
9783731505167
Access:Open Access

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