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Fission-Fusion Hybrid Advanced Burner Reactor Design

Research into a design of a Subcritical Advanced Burner Reactor (SABR) is performed. SABR operating as a burner-reactor is able to burn TRU-Zr metal fuel, resulting is less nuclear HLW repositories needed.

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Stacey, W. M., et al. "A TRU-Zr metal-fuel sodium-cooled fast subcritical advanced burner reactor."Nuclear technology162.1 (2008): 53-79.

  2. W. M. Stacey, "Principles and Rationale of the Fusion-Fission Hybrid Burner Reactor", Proc. FUNFI-2011 Workshop on Fusion for Neutrons and Sub-critical Nuclear Fission, Varenna, AIP Conf. Proc. 1442, p31 (2012).