Conclusion
The results of the calculations are of interest from two points of view: First, the main physical characteristics of the232Th→233U process are presented as a function of the flux density and the energy spectrum of thethermal neutrons, making it possible to evaluate the efficiency of one reactor design or other; second, the decrease in the232Th consumption and the increase in the neutral consumption R as γ grows give reason to hope that the problem of economic optimization for the232Th→233U process will have a nontrivial solution.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp. 320–322, May, 1984.
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Gerasimov, A.S., Kiselev, G.V. & Rudik, A.P. Influence of neutron spectrum on formation of233U from232Th. At Energy 56, 353–357 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01124331
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