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Fusion-Fission Hybrid Nuclear Reactors - For enhanced nuclear fuel utilization and radioactive waste reduction (Hardcover)
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Fusion-Fission Hybrid Nuclear Reactors - For enhanced nuclear fuel utilization and radioactive waste reduction (Hardcover)
Series: Energy Engineering
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Nuclear energy is contributing to the long-term solution to stave
off climate change. However, current nuclear fission technology
accesses only about 1-3% of the nuclear energy content of natural
uranium, which is inefficient, and also creates a radioactive waste
disposal problem. Combining nuclear fission technology with
emerging nuclear fusion technology to create a fusion-fission
hybrid would yield extra fusion neutrons to 1) convert much more of
the uranium into fissionable material, which would increase
efficient utilization of the nuclear fuel resource, and 2)
significantly reduce (by fission) the most long-lived radioactive
nuclear waste. This book describes fusion-fission hybrid physics
and technology. The first parts briefly review nuclear fission
principles and describe design and safety of nuclear fission
reactors; then the fundamentals of nuclear fusion and fusion
reactor concepts are described, together with ongoing and future
challenges and anticipated developments in this not-yet matured
technology. Chapters cover the scientific basis of nuclear fission
and the fission fuel cycle, advanced fission reactors, safety
aspects, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear fusion
power, future improvements expected, and then the fusion-fission
hybrid (FFH) breeder and burner reactor concept principles, with
illustrative FFH design concepts, safety analyses, and examples of
the use of fusion neutrons for helping to achieve burning and
breeding fission fuel cycles. This concise work is essential
reading for researchers and policy makers in nuclear energy
research and engineering, including advanced students.
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