Radioactive waste partitioning and transmutation within advanced fuel cycles: Achievements and challenges

Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 144-166

  Salvatores, M ^a,b   Palmiotti, G ^b  

^a IRFM   (France)

^b IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced fuel cycle; High level waste; Nuclear reactor; Partitioning; Transmutation

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED FUEL CYCLE; FINLAND; GEOLOGICAL DISPOSALS; HEAT PRODUCTION; HIGH LEVEL WASTE; HUMAN INTRUSION; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL WASTES; LONG-LIVED RADIOACTIVE WASTES; NUCLEAR POWER; PARTITIONING; PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; RADIOLOGICAL IMPACTS; RADIONUCLIDE RELEASE; REDUCING WASTE; ROADMAP; SOURCE OF ENERGY; TRANSMUTATION;

ENERGY CONVERSION; FUELS; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOLOGY; REACTOR CORES; REACTOR SHUTDOWNS; SPENT FUELS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE HEAT; WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 78649499326     PISSN: 01466410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppnp.2010.10.001     Document Type: Review

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