Mark R. Gilbert Greg W. Bailey
Accurate predictions of the severity and quantities of radioactive waste is an important part of the design, modelling, and engineering process of future fusion reactors. While fusion will not generate the same highly active spent fuel waste as fission, it will nonetheless create significant radioactive waste due to the interaction of neutrons w…
PreprintGreg Bailey Mark Gilbert Olga Vilkhivskaya
The public perception of fusion power is that it will provide a clean source of abundant nuclear energy. This is not wholly accurate. Currently planned fusion reactors will use the deuterium-tritium (DT) reaction for power generation. This reaction produces 14 MeV neutrons which, as they cannot be magnetically confined, impinge upon the reactor str…
PreprintJack Reid Greg Bailey Edmund Cracknell Mark Gilbert Lee Packer
For either nuclear fusion or generation IV fission reactors to be viable as a commercial energy source the decommissioning and waste disposal solutions must be considered during the design. A multi-step simulation process combining Monte Carlo Neutron Transport simulations with inventory simulations have been performed to estimate the activa…
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