Resolution of Proliferation Issues for a Sodium Fast Reactor Blanket

Breeding blankets are of interest for a sodium fast reactor (SFR) as they allow for small cores to have positive breeding gains. However, because they breed very high-quality plutonium, core designers are not currently encouraged to employ blankets. After verifying that the ERANOS code was in good a...

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Main Authors: Stauff, Nicolas, Driscoll, Michael J, Forget, Benoit Robert Yves, Hejzlar, Pavel
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Nuclear Society 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109322
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2919-2312
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1715-3735