Progress of nitride fuel cycle research for transmutaion of minor actinides

GLOBAL 2007: Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 980-988

  Arai, Yasuo ^a   Akabori, Mitsuo ^a   Minato, Kazuo ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CUBIC BORON NITRIDE; ELECTROPLATING; FUELS; FUSION REACTIONS; IRRADIATION; NEUTRON DETECTORS; NITRIDES; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PELLETIZING; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION; TIN; TINNING; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; TITANIUM NITRIDE; ZIRCONIUM;

ELECTRO-REFINING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; IRRADIATION TESTING; LABORATORY SCALE; MINOR ACTINIDES (MA); MOLTEN CHLORIDES; NITRIDE FUELS; NUCLEAR-FUEL CYCLES; PYROCHEMICAL PROCESSING;

NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING;

EID: 45149130380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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