Proliferation-Proof Uranium/Plutonium Fuel Cycles: Safeguards and Non-Proliferation
After description of the uranium / plutonium fuel cycle results are reported for various isotopic compositions of reactor-grade plutonium for usability in hypothetical nuclear explosive devices. It is shown that it is mainly thermal analyses, besides neutron physics analyses, which indicate the limi...
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| description | After description of the uranium / plutonium fuel cycle results are reported for various isotopic compositions of reactor-grade plutonium for usability in hypothetical nuclear explosive devices. It is shown that it is mainly thermal analyses, besides neutron physics analyses, which indicate the limits of concentration of the Pu-238 plutonium isotope. Above these limits, such hypothetical nuclear explosive devices are not feasible technically. In the light of this finding, future proliferation-proof fuel cycles are proposed which make use of recent methods of actinide transmutation.The author is honorary professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and emeritus director of the former Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Engineering of the former Karlsruhe Research Center. For many years he was a member and, for some time, chairman of the German Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (RSK).He is a member of the European Nuclear Society (ENS) and a member and fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-571792024-04-04T19:19:01Z Proliferation-Proof Uranium/Plutonium Fuel Cycles: Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Kessler, Günther QC1-999 Non-Proliferation Nuclear Fuel Cycle Proliferation-proof Plutonium thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics After description of the uranium / plutonium fuel cycle results are reported for various isotopic compositions of reactor-grade plutonium for usability in hypothetical nuclear explosive devices. It is shown that it is mainly thermal analyses, besides neutron physics analyses, which indicate the limits of concentration of the Pu-238 plutonium isotope. Above these limits, such hypothetical nuclear explosive devices are not feasible technically. In the light of this finding, future proliferation-proof fuel cycles are proposed which make use of recent methods of actinide transmutation.The author is honorary professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and emeritus director of the former Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Engineering of the former Karlsruhe Research Center. For many years he was a member and, for some time, chairman of the German Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (RSK).He is a member of the European Nuclear Society (ENS) and a member and fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). 2021-02-12T00:10:36Z 2021-02-12T00:10:36Z 2019-07-30 20:01:58 2011 book 34572 9783866446144 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/57179 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.ksp.kit.edu/9783866446144 KIT Scientific Publishing 10.5445/KSP/1000021572 10.5445/KSP/1000021572 68fffc18-8f7b-44fa-ac7e-0b7d7d979bd2 9783866446144 383 p. open access |
| spellingShingle | QC1-999 Non-Proliferation Nuclear Fuel Cycle Proliferation-proof Plutonium thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics Kessler, Günther Proliferation-Proof Uranium/Plutonium Fuel Cycles: Safeguards and Non-Proliferation |
| title | Proliferation-Proof Uranium/Plutonium Fuel Cycles: Safeguards and Non-Proliferation |
| title_full | Proliferation-Proof Uranium/Plutonium Fuel Cycles: Safeguards and Non-Proliferation |
| title_fullStr | Proliferation-Proof Uranium/Plutonium Fuel Cycles: Safeguards and Non-Proliferation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Proliferation-Proof Uranium/Plutonium Fuel Cycles: Safeguards and Non-Proliferation |
| title_short | Proliferation-Proof Uranium/Plutonium Fuel Cycles: Safeguards and Non-Proliferation |
| title_sort | proliferation proof uranium plutonium fuel cycles safeguards and non proliferation |
| topic | QC1-999 Non-Proliferation Nuclear Fuel Cycle Proliferation-proof Plutonium thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics |
| topic_facet | QC1-999 Non-Proliferation Nuclear Fuel Cycle Proliferation-proof Plutonium thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics |
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