Proliferation-proof Uranium/Plutonium and Thorium/Uranium Fuel Cycles: Safeguards and Non-Proliferation

• Tác giả: Günter Kessler
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3731505167
• ISBN: KSP/1000054131
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 621.4835 Prime movers and heat engineering
• Thông tin xuất bản: Karlsruhe : KIT Scientific Publishing, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (XXVI, 544 p. p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 231374

Tóm tắt

 Thermal and neutron physics analysis show that above certain concentrations of the isotope Pu-238 hypothetical nuclear explosive devices, made of reactor-grade plutonium, are technically not feasible. Future proliferation-proof fuel cycles are proposed which make use of methods of actinide tansmutation.Reactors operating in the thorium/uranium fuel cyce are loaded with <
 20% U-235 uranium fuel which can be made proliferation-proof against re-enrichment by adding a certain ppm level of U-232.