Background study of liner fusion systems for transmuting fission reactor wastes. Final report
- 1 December 1980
- report
- Published by Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
Abstract
Liner fusion systems were studied in order to evaluate their potential for the transmutation of selected fission wastes. The transmutation goals selected allow one generation (50 y) to reduce the radiological hazard to the order of the natural ore from which it was produced. Two plasma configurations were considered: a field-reversed theta-pinch and an open field-line wall-confined linear plasma. Only thick liquid waste-containing liners were considered. Numerous contributions to liner, plasma and reactor physics and engineering are reported. Average liner surface loadings up to several hundred MW/m/sup 2/ are predicted, which yield hazard depletion e-folding times suitable for actinide, strontium and cesium wastes. The most critical and difficult unsolved technical questions are (1) processing waste with only a few hundred ppM total leakage of actinide and strontium and (2) /sup 90/Sr isotope separation.Keywords
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