A Guidebook to Nuclear Reactors
A Guidebook to Nuclear Reactors

Author: Anthony V. Nero

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1979-01-01

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780520036611

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Provides a detailed introduction to nuclear reactors, describing the four commercial types and discussing uranium resources, fuel cycles, advanced reactor systems, and issues and problems concerning the use of nuclear power

Status of Accelerator Driven Systems Research and Technology Development
Status of Accelerator Driven Systems Research and Technology Development

Author: International Atomic Energy Agency

Publisher: IAEA Tecdoc

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789201053152

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One of the greatest challenges for nuclear energy is how to properly manage the highly radioactive waste generated during irradiation in nuclear reactors. Accelerator Driven Systems (ADSs) may offer new prospects and advantages for the transmutation of such high level nuclear waste. ADS or accelerator driven transmutation of waste (ATW) consists of a high power proton accelerator, a heavy metal spallation target that produces neutrons when bombarded by the high power beam, and a sub-critical core that is neutronically coupled to the spallation target. This publication provides a comprehensive state of the art of the ADS technology by representing the different ADS concepts proposed worldwide in the last 15 years, as well as the related R&D activities and demonstration initiatives carried out at national international level.