FR 13 Call for Papers

摘要

The last large international conférence on fast reactors, FR09, was held in Japan in 2009. Four years later, the fast reactor and associated fuel cycle community will again corne together and will meet in PARIS in 2013. The important rôle of fast reactors and related fuel cycles for the long term sustainability of nuclear power has long been recognized. Fast reactors operated in a closed fuel cycle help to improve the utilization of resources, both fissile and fertile materials used in nuclear fuels. This improvement is possible because fast reactors can breed fissile materials and, using modem fuel cycle technologies, recycle materials bred in thèse reactors. In this way, fast reactors and fuel cycle technologies can make an enormous contribution to the sustainability of nuclear energy production. They hâve the potential to produce a hundred times more energy from natural uranium resources. At the same time, fast neutrons favour fission of heavy atoms, instead of capture, so they can also be used to transmute minor actinides in order to reduce the requirements for final geological repositories of the nuclear waste.