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

• 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
• Online Access: 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...