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The 25 presentations in this book give an impressive overview of MOX technology. The following issues are covered: an up to date report on the disposition of ex-weapons Pu in Russia; an analysis of safety features of MOX fuel configurations of different reactor concepts and their operating and control measures; an exchange of information on the status of MOX utilisation in existing power plants, the fabrication technology of various MOX fuels and their behaviour in practice; a discussion of the typical national approaches by Russia and the western countries to the utilisation of Pu as MOX fuel; an introduction to new ideas, enhancing the disposition option of MOX fuel exploitation and destruction in existing and future advanced reactor systems; and the identification of common research areas where defined tasks can be initiated in cooperative partnership.
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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MOX Fuel Use
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mixed Oxide Fuel (Mox) Exploitation and Destruction in Power Reactors
Editors: Erich R. Merz, Carl E. Walter, Gennady M. Pshakin
Series Title: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2288-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3473-6Published: 31 May 1995
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4549-2Published: 06 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2288-9Published: 29 June 2013
Series ISSN: 1389-1820
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 310
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Nuclear Energy, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes