Minor actinide transmutation for low conversion ratio sodium fast reactors

GLOBAL 2007: Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 671-678

  Ferrer, Rodolfo ^a   Bays, Samuel E ^a   Forget, Benoit ^a   Asgari, Mehdi ^a  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(LIQUID + LIQUID) EQUILIBRIUM; CLOSED CYCLE; CLOSED FUEL CYCLES; CONVERSION RATIOS; DECAY HEATING; GAMMA ENERGY; INERT MATRIX FUEL (IMF); LIGHT WATER; LOW-CONVERSION RATIO; METAL FUELS; MINOR ACTINIDE (MA); MINOR ACTINIDE TRANSMUTATION; MINOR ACTINIDES (MA); MIXED OXIDE (MOX); NUCLEAR-FUEL CYCLES; PYROPROCESSING; SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL (SNF); TRANSURANIC (TRU) ELEMENTS;

ACTINIDES; ALKALI METALS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; DECAY (ORGANIC); DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ENERGY RESOURCES; FAST REACTORS; FLUID MECHANICS; FUELS; ISOMERS; ISOTOPES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); LIGHT WATER REACTORS; NEUTRON EMISSION; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PATIENT MONITORING; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; REACTION KINETICS; SEPARATION; SODIUM;

NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING;

EID: 45149132204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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