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G. Pantis
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 416-423
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19828
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The fuel production capacity of a fission-fusion symbiotic system is investigated. On the basis of physical processes and under the assumption of discontinuous loading and off-loading conditions, maximum, minimum, and averaged trajectories for the fissile and fusile inventories have been derived and analyzed. From a comparative analysis, it is shown that this information leads to more accurate results for such reactor characteristics as doubling times and half-lives.