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Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactors (Hardcover, New)
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Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactors (Hardcover, New)
Series: Series in Fundamental and Applied Nuclear Physics
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This book describes the basic knowledge in nuclear, neutron, and
reactor physics necessary for understanding the principle and
implementation of accelerator driven subcritical nuclear reactors
(ADSRs), also known as hybrid reactors.
Since hybrid reactors may contribute to future nuclear energy
production, the book begins with a discussion of the general energy
problem. It proceeds by developing the elementary physics of
neutron reactors, including the basic nuclear physics involved. The
book then presents computational methods, with special emphasis on
Monte Carlo methods. It examines the specifics of ADSR, starting
from the neutron spallation source to safety features. A thorough
discussion is given on the size of hybrid reactors, which follows
very different constraints from that of critical reactors. The
possibility to optimize the source importance is examined in
detail. The discussion of the fuel evolution follows with its
relevance to safety and to the waste production and incineration.
The conditions for having a constant reactivity over sufficiently
long lapse of time are also discussed. The book also evaluates a
number of practical designs that have been proposed. Finally, the
last chapter deals with the examination of proposed and possible
waste transmutation policies and the role which could be played by
ADSR in this context. The potential advantage of the Thorium cycle
is discussed as well as different scenarios that could be used to
implement it.
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