Molten Salt Considerations For Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Fission To Close The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • The host salt selection, molecular modeling, physical chemistry, and processing chemistry are presented here for an accelerator-driven subcritical fission in a molten salt core (ADSMS). The core is fueled solely with the transuranics (TRU) and long-lived fission products (LFP) from used nuclear fuel. The neutronics and salt composition are optimized to destroy the transuranics by fission and the long-lived fission products by transmutation. The cores are driven by proton beams from a strong-focusing cyclotron stack. One such ADSMS system can destroy the transuranics in the used nuclear fuel produced by a 1GWe conventional reactor. It uniquely provides a method to close the nuclear fuel cycle for green nuclear energy. 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.

name of conference

  • APPLICATION OF ACCELERATORS IN RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY: Twenty-Second International Conference

published proceedings

  • APPLICATION OF ACCELERATORS IN RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY

author list (cited authors)

  • Sooby, E., Adams, M., Baty, A., Gerity, J., McIntyre, P., Melconian, K., ... Tsevkov, P.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Sooby, Elizabeth||Adams, Marvin||Baty, Austin||Gerity, James||McIntyre, Peter||Melconian, Karie||Phongikaroon, Supathorn||Pogue, Nathaniel||Sattarov, Akhdiyor||Simpson, Michael||Tripathy, Prabhat||Tsevkov, Pavel

publication date

  • April 2013