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An Accelerator Driven Subcritical System (ADS) is a promising, new concept for transmutation of long-lived isotopes originating from spent nuclear fuel. In the mainstream of research is the proton accelerator-driven ADS, however, on smaller scale an electron accelerator-driven machine could be an alternative. Using international codes we started to investigate the reactor physical aspects of such a device. In our paper we present the results of the first step of the modelling: the target optimization.
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Brolly, Á., Vértes, P. Transmutation: Towards solving problem of spent nuclear fuel. Acta Phys. Hung. A 19, 263–271 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1556/APH.19.2004.3-4.19
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