An axially heterogeneous sodium-cooled fast reactor designed to transmute minor actinides

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-134

  Bays, Samuel E ^a   Herring, J Stephen ^a   Tulenko, James ^b  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial target; Heterogeneous recycle; Sodium cooled fast reactor

Indexed keywords

FAST REACTORS; FUELS; NEUTRONS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; RECYCLING; SODIUM;

BLANKET DESIGNS; FAST NEUTRON SPECTRUMS; MINOR ACTINIDE; NEUTRON CAPTURE; PLUTONIUM FUEL; REACTOR DESIGNS; SODIUM COOLED FAST REACTOR; ZIRCONIUM HYDRIDE;

ACTINIDES;

EID: 79952171349     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT11-A11542     Document Type: Article

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