BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:UW-Madison-Physics-Events BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:0 UID:UW-Physics-Event-2164 DTSTART:20110523T183000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S DTSTAMP:20260420T120426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110523T145041Z LOCATION:5310 Chamberlin SUMMARY:Transmutation of nuclear waste: Basics\, Methods\, Perspective s\, NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum\, Arnd Junghans\, Instit ut für Strahlenphysik\, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf DESCRIPTION:Nuclear power production having the merit of very little g reenhouse gas emissions accumulates high-level radioactive waste. Curr ently final storage solutions in deep geological formations are in pre paration in many countries having a nuclear fuel cycle to safely keep the spent nuclear fuel for up to a million years. Nuclear reactors usi ng a fast neutron spectrum can fission essentially all long-lived acti nides (e.g. Plutonium) and thus transmute the long-lived actinide nucl ides into generally short lived fission products. Generation IV nuclea r reactor concepts and accelerator driven systems (ADS)are currently i n development that foresee a closed fuel cycle. The majority of the fi ssile nuclides (Uranium\, Plutonium) shall be used for power generatio n and only fission products will be put into final storage that needs to last for only 1000 years because of the shorter nuclear half-lives. For the transmutation of high-level radioactive waste a lot of resear ch and development is still required. One aspect is the precise knowle dge of nuclear data for reactions with fast neutrons. Nuclear reaction s relevant for transmutation are investigated at the photoneutron sour ce nELBE at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in Dresden\, Germany. <\;br>\;

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\nSupported by the german Federal Ministery for Education and Research under contract 02NUK13A a nd by the EURATOM FP7 project &\;quot\;ERINDA&\;quot\;.<\;br&g t\;

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