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Fuel Cycle Analysis of Fast Transmutation, Breeder and Sustainable Fast Reactors

Extensive fuel cycle analyses are required to evaluate the most effective ways to operate fast reactors in order to close the nuclear fuel cycle.

PUBLICATIONS

  1. E. A. Hoffman and W. M. Stacey, "Comparative Fuel Cycle Analysis of Critical and Subcritical Fast Reactor Transmutation Systems", Nuclear Technol. 144, 83 (2003).

  2. J. W. Maddox and W. M. Stacey, "Fuel Cycle Analysis of a Sub-Critical, Fast, He-Cooled Transmutation Reactor with a Fusion Neutron Source", Nuclear Technol, 158, 94 (2007).

  3. C. M. Sommer, W. M. Stacey and B. Petrovic, "Fuel Cycle Analysis of the SABR Subcritical Transmutation Reactor Concept", Nuclear Technol. (October, 2010).

  4. W. M. Stacey, C. M. Sommer, T. S. Sumner, B. Petrovic, S. M. Ghiaasiaan, C. L. Stewart, "SABR Fusion-Fission Hybrid Fast Burner Reactor Based on ITER", NEA 11th InformationExchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation, San Francisco, November, 2010.

  5. C. M. Sommer, W. M. Stacey and B. Petrovic, "Fuel Cycle Analysis of the SABR Subcritical Transmutation Reactor for Transuranic and Minor Actinide Burning Fuels", Submitted to Nuclear Technol. (May, 2011).