Nuclear fission fuel is inexhaustible

2006 IEEE EIC Climate Change Technology Conference, EICCCC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lightfoot, H Douglas ^a   Manheimer, Wallace ^b   Meneley, Daniel A ^c   Pendergast, Duane ^d   Stanford, George S ^e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c AECL ^*

^d Computare ^*

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeder; Fission; Fusion; Inexhaustible; Nuclear; Plutonium; Reactor; Renewable; Thorium; Uranium

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FOSSIL FUELS; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR REACTORS;

NUCLEAR FISSION ENERGY; NUCLEAR FISSION FUELS;

FISSION REACTIONS;

EID: 41549117973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EICCCC.2006.277268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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