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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
A. V. Anikeev, P. A. Bagryansky, U. Fischer, K. Noack, Yu. A. Tsidulko
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 220-222
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11615
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Transmutation of long-lived radioactive nuclear waste, including plutonium, minor actinides and fission products, represents a highly important problem of fission reactor technology and is presently studied worldwide in large-scale. Sub-critical systems seem to be a promising option for efficiently burning plutonium and minor actinides provided a sufficiently high-intense neutron source is available. For a number of years the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Russia) in collaboration with the Russian and European organizations developed the project of a 14 MeV neutron source for fusion material irradiation and other applications. The projected plasma type neutron source is based on the Gas Dynamic Trap (GDT) which is a special magnetic mirror system for the plasma confinement. This poster presents different version of the GDT-based neutron source for hybrid fusion-fission sub-critical system for the transmutation of the long-live radioactive waste in spent nuclear fuel.