Roadmap for the Development of Accelerator Transmutation of Waste: Target and Blanket System - Report of the Target and Blanket Technical Working Group.

摘要

This report describes a roadmap to develop Accelerator Transmutation of Waste (ATW) target and blanket technology for an ATW system that would be deployable in about 25 years. The Accelerator Transmutation of Waste (ATW) concept has been proposed to eliminate long-lived actinides and fission products from spent light water reactor fuel, which would otherwise require disposal and isolation in a deep geologic repository. As currently envisioned, an ATW facility consists of three major elements: (1) a high-power proton accelerator; (2) a spent fuel treatment/waste cleanup system; and (3) a subcritical target and blanket system that produces and utilizes an intense source-driven neutron flux for fission of transuranics and transmutation of fission products.