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NRC wants input on Hermes 2 test reactor construction permit
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking input on its draft environmental assessment and draft finding of no significant impact for Kairos Power’s application to build the Hermes 2 test reactor facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
G. P. Lawrence, R. A. Jameson, S. O. Schriber
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 652-656
Accelerator/Reactor Waste Transmutation | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946914
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Powerful proton linacs are being studied at Los Alamos as drivers for high-flux neutron sources that can transmute long-lived fission products and actinides in defense nuclear waste, and also as drivers of advanced fission-energy systems that could generate electric power with no long-term waste legacy. A transmuter fed by an 800-McV, 140-mA cw conventional copper linac could destroy the accumulated 99Tc and 129I at the DOE's Hanford site within 30 years. A high-efficiency 1200-McV, 140-mA niobium superconducting linac could drive an energy-producing system generating 1-GWc electric power. Preliminary design concepts for these different high-power linacs are discussed, along with the principal technical issues and the status of the technology base.
