Energy Production and Transmutation of Nuclear Waste by Accelerator Driven Systems
Seminars
VBLHEP Scientific and Methodical Seminar #14
Date and Time: Thursday, 8 November 2018, at 11:00 AM
Venue: bld 215, room 347, Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics
Seminar topic: «Energy Production and Transmutation of Nuclear Waste by Accelerator Driven Systems»
Speaker: P.K. Zhivkov (Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Abstract:
There is a significant amount of highly radiotoxic long-life nuclear waste (NW) produced by NPP (Nuclear Power Plants). Transmutation is a process which transforms NW into less radiotoxic nuclides with a shorter period of half-life by spallation neutrons or radiative capture of neThe article considers the energy production problems in ADS. Sevsses of transmutation new radioactive nuclides are produced. ADS is big energy consumer equipment. It is a method for production of a high-flux and high-energy neutron field. All these processes occur in ADS simultaneously. ADS is able to transmute actinides and produce energy simultaneously. The article considers the energy production problems in ADS. Several ideas are developed regarding the solution of the global energy supply.