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Playing the “bad guy” to enhance next-generation safety
Sometimes, cops and robbers is more than just a kid’s game. At the Department of Energy’s national laboratories, researchers are channeling their inner saboteurs to discover vulnerabilities in next-generation nuclear reactors, making sure that they’re as safe as possible before they’re even constructed.
W. M. Stacey, J. Mandrekas, E. A. Hoffman
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 4 | May 2005 | Pages 1210-1218
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Nonelectric Applications | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A852
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The principal results of a series of design scoping studies of sub-critical fast transmutation reactors (based on the nuclear and processing technology being developed in the USDoE Generation IV, Advanced Fuel Cycle and Next Generation Nuclear Plant programs) coupled with a tokamak fusion neutron source (based on the ITER design basis physics and technology) are presented.