Multilateral assessment of the fast reactor system as a component of the future sustainable nuclear energy and paths for the system deployment

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 591-596

  Raj, Baldev ^a   Vasile, Alfredo ^b   Kagramanian, Vladimir ^c   Xu, Mi ^d   Nakai, Ryodai ^e   Kim, Young In ^f   Usanov, Vladimir ^g   Stanculescu, Alexander ^g  

^a INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

^b IRFM   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND POWER ENGINEERING   (Russian Federation)

^d CHINA INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC ENERGY   (China)

^e JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

^g INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Closed nuclear fuel cycle; Fast reactors; INPRO; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

INPRO; NUCLEAR ENERGY SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLES; REACTOR SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABILITY; SYSTEM DEPLOYMENT;

FAST REACTORS; FUELS; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

NUCLEAR ENERGY;

EID: 79953731745     PISSN: 00223131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3327/jnst.48.591     Document Type: Review

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