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This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications.
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Oklo completes end-to-end demonstration of advanced fuel recycling
Oklo Inc. has announced that it has completed the first end-to-end demonstration of its advanced fuel recycling process as part of an ongoing $5 million project in collaboration with Argonne and Idaho National Laboratories. Oklo’s goal: scaling up its fuel recycling capabilities to deploy a commercial-scale recycling facility that would increase advanced reactor fuel supplies and enhance fuel cost effectiveness for its planned sodium fast reactors.
Guenther Kessler, Josef Eibl
Nuclear Technology | Volume 111 | Number 3 | September 1995 | Pages 358-368
Technical Paper | A New Light Water Reactor Safety Concept Special / Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT95-A15866
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The risk of present-day light water reactors is dominated by the consequences of core melt accidents followed by a failure of the outer containment. Although such events would have very low frequencies of occurrence, their risk cannot be neglected in the future. Therefore, specifications for mechanical loads and heat loads to the containment are analyzed, and design modifications are proposed, explaining how the containment can withstand the consequences of core melts. As a result, the radiological impact outside of the containment will be drastically decreased. Evacuation of the population outside of the reactor plant will no longer be necessary in the case of a core melt.