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Hanford completes 20 containers of immobilized waste
The Department of Energy has announced that the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) has reached a commissioning milestone, producing more than 20 stainless steel containers of immobilized low-activity radioactive waste.
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
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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.