Capabilities of a DT tokamak fusion neutron source for driving a spent nuclear fuel transmutation reactor

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 135-154

  Stacey, Weston M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; FISSION REACTIONS; FUSION REACTIONS; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

TRANSMUTATION REACTORS;

NEUTRON SOURCES;

EID: 0035262873     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/41/2/301     Document Type: Article

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