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Plentiful Energy - The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor: The Complex History of a Simple Reactor Technology, with Emphasis on Its Scientific Bases for Non-Specialists (Paperback)
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Plentiful Energy - The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor: The Complex History of a Simple Reactor Technology, with Emphasis on Its Scientific Bases for Non-Specialists (Paperback)
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The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) is a fast reactor system developed
at Argonne National Laboratory in the decade 1984 to 1994. The IFR
project developed the technology for a complete system; the
reactor, the entire fuel cycle and the waste management
technologies were all included in the development program. The
reactor concept had important features and characteristics that
were completely new and fuel cycle and waste management
technologies that were entirely new developments. The reactor is a
"fast" reactor - that is, the chain reaction is maintained by
"fast" neutrons with high energy - which produces its own fuel. The
IFR reactor and associated fuel cycle is a closed system.
Electrical power is generated, new fissile fuel is produced to
replace the fuel burned, its used fuel is processed for recycling
by pyroprocessing - a new development - and waste is put in final
form for disposal. All this is done on one self-sufficient site.
The scale and duration of the project and its funding made it the
largest nuclear energy R and D program of its day. Its purpose was
the development of a long term massive new energy source, capable
of meeting the nation's electrical energy needs in any amount, and
for as long as it is needed, forever, if necessary. Safety,
non-proliferation and waste toxicity properties were improved as
well, these three the characteristics most commonly cited in
opposition to nuclear power. Development proceeded from success to
success. Most of the development had been done when the program was
abruptly cancelled by the newly elected Clinton Administration. In
his 1994 State of the Union address the president stated that
"unnecessary programs in advanced reactor development will be
terminated." The IFR was that program. This book gives the real
story of the IFR, written by the two nuclear scientists who were
most deeply involved in its conception, the development of its R
and D program, and its management. Between the scientific and
engineering papers and reports, and books on the IFR, and the
non-technical and often impassioned dialogue that continues to this
day on fast reactor technology, we felt there is room for a volume
that, while accurate technically, is written in a manner accessible
to the non-specialist and even to the non-technical reader who
simply wants to know what this technology is.
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