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001			https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/57179
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020			_aKSP/1000021572
020			_a9783866446144
024	7		_a10.5445/KSP/1000021572 _cdoi
041	0		_aEnglish
042			_adc
100	1		_aKessler, Günther _4auth
245	1	0	_aProliferation-Proof Uranium/Plutonium Fuel Cycles: Safeguards and Non-Proliferation
260			_bKIT Scientific Publishing _c2011
300			_a1 electronic resource (383 p. p.)
506	0		_aOpen Access _2star _fUnrestricted online access
520			_aAfter description of the uranium / plutonium fuel cycle results are reported for various isotopic compositions of reactor-grade plutonium for usability in hypothetical nuclear explosive devices. It is shown that it is mainly thermal analyses, besides neutron physics analyses, which indicate the limits of concentration of the Pu-238 plutonium isotope. Above these limits, such hypothetical nuclear explosive devices are not feasible technically. In the light of this finding, future proliferation-proof fuel cycles are proposed which make use of recent methods of actinide transmutation.The author is honorary professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and emeritus director of the former Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Engineering of the former Karlsruhe Research Center. For many years he was a member and, for some time, chairman of the German Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (RSK).He is a member of the European Nuclear Society (ENS) and a member and fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS).
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ _2cc _4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
546			_aEnglish
653			_aNon-Proliferation
653			_aNuclear Fuel Cycle
653			_aProliferation-proof
653			_aPlutonium
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://www.ksp.kit.edu/9783866446144 _70 _zDOAB: download the publication
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/57179 _70 _zDOAB: description of the publication
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