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ACCELERATOR DRIVEN SYSTEMS FOR NUCLEAR SPENT FUEL TRANSMUTATION

JARCHOVSKÝ, P.; KATOVSKÝ, K.; ZEMAN, M.; ZÁVORKA, L.

Original Title

ACCELERATOR DRIVEN SYSTEMS FOR NUCLEAR SPENT FUEL TRANSMUTATION

English Title

ACCELERATOR DRIVEN SYSTEMS FOR NUCLEAR SPENT FUEL TRANSMUTATION

Type

Paper in proceedings (conference paper)

Original Abstract

Management of spent nuclear fuel is a Calx Achillis of nuclear power generation. There are two major concepts how to deal with spent fuel – uranium/plutonium recycling with mixed oxide fuel production, and deep geological repository storage. Geological repository seems to be necessary for any concepts proposed; however, it is hardly imaginable for many nuclear engineers to store whole spent fuel after once-through fuel cycle there. Amount of stored spent nuclear fuel has to be minimized. One of proposed technologies for minimizing of spent nuclear fuel amount is very challenging accelerator driven transmutation technology. Accelerator driven systems (ADS) might be used not only as transmutors for spent nuclear fuel but also as energy amplifiers within thorium (as well as uranium) fuel cycle and/or very intensive neutron sources for research, medicine, and other applications (e.g. SNS, IREN, ESS).

English abstract

Management of spent nuclear fuel is a Calx Achillis of nuclear power generation. There are two major concepts how to deal with spent fuel – uranium/plutonium recycling with mixed oxide fuel production, and deep geological repository storage. Geological repository seems to be necessary for any concepts proposed; however, it is hardly imaginable for many nuclear engineers to store whole spent fuel after once-through fuel cycle there. Amount of stored spent nuclear fuel has to be minimized. One of proposed technologies for minimizing of spent nuclear fuel amount is very challenging accelerator driven transmutation technology. Accelerator driven systems (ADS) might be used not only as transmutors for spent nuclear fuel but also as energy amplifiers within thorium (as well as uranium) fuel cycle and/or very intensive neutron sources for research, medicine, and other applications (e.g. SNS, IREN, ESS).

Keywords

Transmutation; Spent Fuel; ADS

Key words in English

Transmutation; Spent Fuel; ADS

Authors

JARCHOVSKÝ, P.; KATOVSKÝ, K.; ZEMAN, M.; ZÁVORKA, L.

Released

23.05.2014

ISBN

978-80-214-4931-2

Book

Proceedings on Education, Research, INnovation 2014

Pages from

1

Pages to

8

Pages count

8

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT112321,
  author="Petr {Jarchovský} and Karel {Katovský} and Miroslav {Zeman} and Lukáš {Závorka}",
  title="ACCELERATOR DRIVEN SYSTEMS FOR NUCLEAR SPENT FUEL TRANSMUTATION",
  booktitle="Proceedings on Education, Research, INnovation 2014",
  year="2014",
  pages="1--8",
  isbn="978-80-214-4931-2"
}