Transmutation of nuclear waste branded ‘Trojan horse’

Cross Sections for the Transmutation of Nuclear Waste

The final design, safety assessment and precise performance analysis of transmutation devices such as Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS) or Fast Critical Reactors, need accurate and reliable nuclear data. The cross sections of Np and Pu have been measured in 2004 at n_TOF with good accuracy due to a combination of features unique in the world: high instantaneous neutron fluence and excellent ener...

Nuclear Data Evaluation for Accelerator- Based Transmutation of Radioactive Waste

The necessity of high-energy nuclear data libraries for accelerator-based transmutation research is argued. After a brief sketch of the bigll-energy nuclear reaction chain in an incineration system, the most important data. needs for accelerator-based transmutation are categorized by reaction type and nlaterial. The present status of the collection of experimental data for high energies is inve...

Basic research at GSI for the transmutation of nuclear waste

In the course of the concerted action “Lead for ADT”, which preceded the HINDAS project [1], an innovative experimental method has been developed at GSI-Darmstadt. This new approach is based on the inverse-kinematics method where a liquid-hydrogen target is bombarded with heavy projectiles. The reaction products are identified in-flight in mass and atomic number in a high-resolution spectromete...

TESOL: Trojan Horse of Globalisation

Partitioning-transmutation Technology: a Potential Future Nuclear Waste Management Option

Partitioning-transmutation technology (PT) will produce radioactive wastes of different physical and chemical properties and in different amounts from those generated in the current nuclear fuel cycle. To assess quantitatively the effects of PT on waste disposal, we first analyzed the amounts of the PT wastes, assumed conditioning for each type of the waste, and then made an attempt to estimate...