Overview of advanced fuel cycles for the 21st century

ATW - Internationale Zeitschrift fur Kernenergie

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Salvatores, Massimo ^a,b   Knebel, Joachim U ^a,b  

^a Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Program Nuklear ^*

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 63449106860     PISSN: 14315254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (13)

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2. T.A. Taiwo et al.: Assessment of a Heterogeneous PWR Assembly for Plutonium and Minor Actinide Recycle. Nucl. Technology, Vol. 155, No.1, p. 34-54, July 2006.
3. Accelerator-driven Systems (ADS) and Fast Reactors (FR) in Advanced Fuel Cycles. A comparative study. OECD-NEA Report 2002.
4. C. Fazio, M. Salvatores and W.S. Yang: Down-selection of partitioning routes and of transmutation fuels for P&T strategies implementation. Proc. Int. Conf. GLOBAL 2007, Boise, Sept. 2007.
5. The European REDIMPACT Project (to be published).
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10. th NEA Information Exch. Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product P&T, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 9-11 November, 2004.
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12. J. U. Knebel, H. Aït Abderrahim, L. Cinotti, F. Delage, C. Fazio, M. Giot, B. Giraud, E. Gonzalez, G. Granget, S. Monti and A. C. Mueller: EUROTRANS, European research programme for the transmutation of high-level.nuclear waste in an accelerator driven systems In: Proc. "FISA 2006 EU Research and Training in Reactor Systems", Luxemburg, 2006, pp. 353-372.
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