The fourth generation of nuclear reactors

✍ Scribed by Thomas Schulenberg

• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 190
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Abbreviations
Formula Symbol
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction
Sustainability
Safety and Reliability
Economic Competitiveness
Proliferation Resistance
2: Fundamentals of Nuclear Technology
Nuclides and Radioactive Decay
Nuclear Reactions of Neutrons
Nuclear Fuel Fabrication
Conventional Water-Cooled Reactors
Pressurized Water Reactor
Boiling Water Reactor
3: Innovative Water-Cooled Reactors
Supercritical Water
Reactor Concepts with Supercritical Water
The Superheated Steam Reactor
Pressure-Tube Reactors
Further Developments
Conclusion
Economic Competitiveness
Safety
Reliability
Sustainability
Proliferation Resistance
4: High-Temperature Reactors
Ceramic Fuel Elements
History
Newer Concepts
Inherent Safety
Further Developments
Conclusion
Safety
Economic Competitiveness
Sustainability
Proliferation Resistance
5: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Formation of Plutonium in the Reactor
Fuel Composition at Direct Disposal
Separation of Uranium and Transuranics
Recycling in Thermal Reactors
Sustainable Concepts
Proliferation Resistance
Thorium Fuel
Conclusion
6: Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors
History
Sodium
Nuclear Fission with Fast Neutrons
Reactor Concepts
Conclusion
Sustainability
Safety
Reliability
Economic Competitiveness
Proliferation Resistance
7: Lead-Cooled Fast Reactors
Lead and Lead-Bismuth
History
SVBR-75/100
BREST-1200
MYRRHA
Conclusion
Sustainability
Safety
Reliability
Economic Competitiveness
Proliferation Resistance
8: Gas-Cooled Fast Reactors
Helium
Helium-Cooled Fast Reactor Concepts
Steam Cooled Fast Reactors
Conclusion
Sustainability
Safety
Reliability
Economic Competitiveness
Proliferation Resistance
9: Molten Salt Reactors
Fluorides
History
Fast Molten Salt Reactors
The MOSART Concept
The Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR)
The Pyroprocess
TMSR Development Plans
Conclusion
Sustainability
Safety
Reliability
Economic Competitiveness
Proliferation Resistance
10: Significance for the Economy and Society
Glossary
References