• particle accelerator, a concept known as an accelerator-driven system (ADS) or accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor. A subcritical reactor can be used...
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  • An accelerator-driven subcritical reactor (ADSR) is a nuclear reactor design formed by coupling a substantially subcritical nuclear reactor core with a...
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  • physics, an energy amplifier is a novel type of nuclear power reactor, a subcritical reactor, in which an energetic particle beam is used to stimulate a...
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  • Another similar concept is the accelerator-driven subcritical reactor, which uses a particle accelerator to provide the neutrons instead of nuclear reactions...
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    gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs) Fast neutron reactors (FNRs) Accelerator driven reactors (ADS) Accelerator-driven subcritical reactor Generation IV reactor India's...
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  • a common type of music envelope Accelerator-driven subcritical reactor, a nuclear reactor using a particle accelerator to generate a fission reaction in...
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  • external neutron source, e.g. spallation driven by a particle accelerator in an accelerator-driven subcritical reactor. According to Alvin Weinberg and Eugene...
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    a next-generation, thorium-fueled nuclear reactor concept known as an accelerator-driven subcritical reactor. After obtaining a master's degree, Barron...
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    Ukraine operates four nuclear power plants with 15 reactors located in Volhynia and South Ukraine. The total installed nuclear power capacity is over 13...
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    Research Reactor for High-tech Applications) is a design project of a nuclear reactor coupled to a proton accelerator. This makes it an accelerator-driven system...
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    Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1997. Accelerator-driven subcritical reactor Energy amplifier Megawatts and Megatons William J. Broad...
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    reactions are subcritical fission reactors. Such devices use radioactive decay or particle accelerators to trigger fissions. Critical fission reactors are built...
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  • miniature neutron source reactor light water subcritical reactor (LWSCR) heavy water zero power reactor (HWZPR) graphite subcritical reactor (GSCR) Arak – IR-40...
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    use in an accelerator-driven subcritical reactor system in which a non-critical fission core is driven to criticality by a small accelerator. Future electrical...
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  • System, US non-lethal weapon ADS amphibious rifle Accelerator-driven system, a type of subcritical reactor Adaptive Damping System, Mercedes vehicle suspension...
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  • decay, and as "energy amplifiers", for Accelerator-Driven Sub-critical Reactors (ADSRs) / Sub-critical Reactors in which a neutron beam derived from a...
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  • plutonium-242, are better destroyed in fast reactors, accelerator-driven subcritical reactors, or fusion reactors. Americium-241 has some industrial applications...
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    modular reactor Thorium Energy Alliance Accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor Energy amplifier LeBlanc, David (2010). "Molten salt reactors: A new beginning...
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  • that curium will be excluded from most MOX fuels. A subcritical reactor such as the Accelerator Driven System could "burn" such fuels if the problems associated...
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    MYRRHA, the world's first large scale demonstration of an accelerator-driven subcritical reactor that is to be used for nuclear transmutation of high level...
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    heavier elements could be transmuted in fast reactors, but probably more effectively in a subcritical reactor which is sometimes known as an energy amplifier...
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    phonons more effectively than X-rays. Energy amplifier Subcritical reactor (accelerator-driven system) Sputtering (phenomenon in which microscopic particles...
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    world's strongest intermediate duration pulsed neutron source. Subcritical nuclear fission reactors are proposed to use spallation neutron sources and can be...
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    promising alternative from this perspective is an accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor / subcritical reactor. Here a beam of either protons (United States...
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    contamination during refueling of the reactor and handling components in contact with LBE. Subcritical reactor (accelerator-driven system) NEA. "Handbook on lead-bismuth...
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  • patent for a nuclear reactor. The design, which predates the discovery of fission, resembles an accelerator-driven subcritical reactor, suggesting deuteron...
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  • uses outside nuclear reactors. Fissionable but non-fissile actinoids can be used or disposed of in a subcritical nuclear reactor using an external neutron...
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    would begin prematurely. Neutron losses through the void between the two subcritical masses (gun assembly) or the voids between not-fully-compressed fuel...
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    are proposed to make use of those neutrons to either maintain a subcritical reactor or to aid in nuclear transmutation of harmful long lived nuclear...
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  • weapons proliferation threat. To avoid the security concern of HEU, the accelerator-driven, low-enriched uranium (LEU) solution becomes the target for high-efficiency...
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