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Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement
Russia’s lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, approved a measure to withdraw from a 25-year-old agreement with the United States to cut back on the leftover plutonium from Cold War–era nuclear weapons.
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.
