Conceptual design of thorium-fuelled mitrailleuse accelerator-driven subcritical reactor using D-Be neutron source

International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 2012, PHYSOR 2012: Advances in Reactor Physics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 3971-3984

  Kokubo, Yuji ^a   Kamei, Takashi ^b  

^a Quan Japan Company Limited   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accelerator driven subcritical reactor; Minor actinoids; Repeated electrostatic acceleration; Retrofittable in existing PWRs; Spent fuel; Thorium

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION FIELDS; ACCELERATION METHOD; ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY; ACCELERATOR-DRIVEN SUBCRITICAL REACTORS; DETAILED DESIGN; FAILURE RATE; HIGH ACCELERATION; HIGH-STRENGTH; IF THERE ARE; MINOR ACTINOIDS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RETROFITTABLE IN EXISTING PWRS; SUB-CRITICAL REACTORS; THIRD QUARTERS;

ACCELERATION CONTROL; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); ELECTROSTATICS; NEUTRON SOURCES; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; SPENT FUELS; THORIUM;

ACCELERATION;

EID: 84870328467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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