Plutonium transmutation in thorium fuel cycle

GLOBAL 2007: Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 662-666

  Necas, Vladimir ^a   Breza, Juraj ^a,b   Darilek, Petr ^b  

^a SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b VUJE INC   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; FUELS; FUSION REACTIONS; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PLUTONIUM; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; REACTION KINETICS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; THORIUM; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS;

FISSILE MATERIALS; FUEL CYCLES; LIGHT WATER; NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS; NUCLEAR-FUEL CYCLES; RADIOTOXICITY;

NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING;

EID: 45149116982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

1. S. DAVID et al., "Revisiting the Thorium-Uranium Nucl. Fuel Cycle", Europh. News, 38, 2, 24 (2007).
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3. IAEA, "Potential of Thorium Based Fuel Cycles to Constrain Plutonium and Reduce Long Lived Waste Toxicity", IAEA-TECDOC-1349, International Atomic Energy Agency, April 2003.
4. th Atomic Energy Research Symposium, September 25-29, 2006, Bratislava, Slovakia, KFKI Budapest (2006), pp. 685-691.
5. V. NECAS et al., "Radiotoxicity and Risk Reduction of TRU Elements from Spent Fuel by Transmutation in the Light Water Reactor", in Int. Conf. on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, September 26-October 1, 2004, Santa Fe, New Mexico, AIP Conf. Proceedings, 769, (2005), pp. 1474-1477.