Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactors

H Nifenecker, O Meplan, S David9780750307437, 0-7503-0743-9

Interest has risen recently in the reactors, which are said might produce energy and transmute radioactive wastes in a cleaner and safer manner than current nuclear power reactors. Nifenecker, O. Meplan, and S. David (all Institute of Nuclear Physics, France) offer an intuitive explanation of the current technology and economics, for students and practitioners in nuclear reactor technology who have not necessarily encountered the approach before nor are intimate with such complex codes as the Monte Carlo type. They begin by setting out the context of energy use and sources, then discuss such aspects as elementary reactor theory, practical simulation methods, fuel reprocessing techniques, generic properties, and scenarios for development. Distributed in the US by AIDC

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 6
1. Introduction……Page 12
2. The energy issue……Page 15
3. Elementary reactor theory……Page 50
4. ADSR principles……Page 104
5. Practical simulation methods……Page 110
6. The neutron source……Page 149
7. ADSR kinetics……Page 182
8. Reactivity evolutions……Page 188
9. Fuel reprocessing techniques……Page 196
10. Generic properties of ADSRs……Page 220
11. Role of hybrid reactors in fuel cycles……Page 226
12. Ground laying proposals……Page 253
13. Scenarios for the development of ADSRs……Page 263
Appendices……Page 274
Bibliography……Page 316
Index……Page 324