Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Fission In Molten Salt Core: Closing The Nuclear Fuel Cycle For Green Nuclear Energy Conference Paper

abstract

• A technology for accelerator-driven subcritical fission in a molten salt core (ADSMS) is being developed as a basis for the destruction of the transuranics in used nuclear fuel. The molten salt fuel is a eutectic mixture of NaCl and the chlorides of the transuranics and fission products. The core is driven by proton beams from a strong-focusing cyclotron stack. This approach uniquely provides an intrinsically safe means to drive a core fueled only with transuranics, thereby eliminating competing breeding terms. 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.

name of conference

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

authors

• Mcintyre, Peter
• Tsvetkov, Pavel

published proceedings

• APPLICATION OF ACCELERATORS IN RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY

author list (cited authors)

• McIntyre, P., Assadi, S., Badgley, K., Baker, W., Comeaux, J., Gerity, J., ... Tsvetkov, P.

citation count

• 9

complete list of authors

• McIntyre, Peter||Assadi, Saeed||Badgley, Karie||Baker, William||Comeaux, Justin||Gerity, James||Kellams, Joshua||McInturff, Al||Pogue, Nathaniel||Phongikaroon, Supathorn||Sattarov, Akhdiyor||Simpson, Michael||Sooby, Elizabeth||Tsvetkov, Pavel

publication date

• April 2013

publisher

• AIP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• AIP Conference Proceedings  Journal

keywords

• High-current Proton Driver
• Long-lived Isotopes
• Molten Salt
• Nuclear Fission
• Subcritical Fission
• Transuranics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1063/1.4802405

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9780735411487

start page

• 636

end page

• 642

volume

• 1525

issue

• 1

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1063%2F1.4802405

user-defined tag

• 7 Affordable and Clean Energy