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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Accelerator Driven Systems - a credible technological solution to the problem of waste?

Accelerator Driven Systems - a credible technological solution to the problem of waste?


Quote: The technology has progressed to the point where we could get rid of much of the long term source term, the actinides by using a high power neutron source.
http://science.energy.gov/~/media/hep/pdf/files/pdfs/ADS_White_Paper_final.pdf
Summarised here :
http://www.phys.vt.edu/~kimballton/gem-star/workshop/presentations/henderson.pdf

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