Nuclear fission reactors as energy sources for the giant outer planets

1992 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Marvin Herndon
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Fission ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Outer Planets ◽  
Fission Reactors

scholarly journals Review of the Deployment of and Research into Generation III & IV Nuclear Fission Reactors for Power Generation

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 90-108
Author(s):  
Timothy Lambert ◽  
Xuan Hieu Nghiem
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Efficiency ◽  
Nuclear Fission ◽  
Energy Output ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Pressurized Water ◽  
Technical Structure ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Fission Power ◽  
Water Reactors ◽  
Fission Reactors

Nuclear fission is one of the more popular and efficient sources of energy that has been used in the last few decades. In the setting of the ongoing worldwide debate of the energy problem, this paper will review the different types and generations of nuclear reactors, and do comparisons with other notable energy sources (biofuel and fusion). The current generations III, III+, IV of reactor (mostly pressurized water reactors), their thermal efficiency, technical (structure and configuration), lifetime, energy output and how the systems contrast are discussed. The paper was written by gathering information from UTS library online database, as well as online articles related to fission power, all sources dating from 2000s onwards. Nuclear fission power is a very dense energy source as it provides higher amount of free energy than other energy sources from the same amount of fuel. The drawback, which is the high amount of radioactive waste that accumulates over time, along with thermal efficiency are improved upon by the current and next generations of reactors.

Nuclear Fission Reactors

1984 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Wirtz
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Fission ◽  
Fission Reactors

scholarly journals Theoretically and under very special applied conditions a nuclear fission reactor may explode as nuclear bomb

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
J. S. Kondylakis
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Reactor ◽  
Nuclear Fission ◽  
Reactor Vessel ◽  
Reactor System ◽  
Core Material ◽  
Fission Reactor ◽  
Nuclear Bomb ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Supporting Material ◽  
Fission Reactors

This article/presentation describes a theoretical and applied research in nuclear fission reactor systems. It concerns with theoretical approaches and in very special applied cases consideration where a common nuclear fission reactor system may be considered to explode as nuclear bomb. This research gives critical impacts to the design, operation, management and philosophy of nuclear fission reactors systems. It also includes a sensitivity analysis of a particular applied problem concerning the core melting of a nuclear reactor and its deposit to the bottom of reactor vessel. Specifically, in a typical nuclear fission power reactor system of about 1000 MWe, the nuclear core material (corium) in certain cases can be melted and it may deposited in the bottom of nuclear reactor vessel. So, the nuclear criticality conditions are evaluated for a particular example case(s). Assuming an example composition of melted corium of 98 tones of U238 , 1 tone of U235 , 1 tone Pu239 and 25 tones Fe56 (supporting material) in a 5 m diameter of a finite cylindrical nuclear reactor vessel it is found that it may result in nuclear criticality above the unit. This condition corresponds to Supercritical Fast Nuclear Fission Reactor case, which may under certain very special applied conditions to nuclear explode as nuclear bomb.

Improving the Quantification of Deuterium in Zirconium Alloy Atom Probe Tomography Data Using Existing Analysis Methods

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Megan E. Jones ◽  
Andrew J. London ◽  
Andrew J. Breen ◽  
Paul D. Styman ◽  
Shyam Sikotra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Embrittlement ◽  
Atom Probe Tomography ◽  
Zirconium Alloys ◽  
Nuclear Fission ◽  
Atom Probe ◽  
Atomic Scale ◽  
Ratio Spectrum ◽  
Alloy Atom ◽  
Fission Reactors ◽  
Tomography Data

Zirconium alloys are common fuel claddings in nuclear fission reactors and are susceptible to the effects of hydrogen embrittlement. There is a need to be able to detect and image hydrogen at the atomic scale to gain the experimental evidence necessary to fully understand hydrogen embrittlement. Through the use of deuterium tracers, atom probe tomography (APT) is able to detect and spatially locate hydrogen at the atomic scale. Previous works have highlighted issues with quantifying deuterium concentrations using APT due to complex peak overlaps in the mass-to-charge-state ratio spectrum between molecular hydrogen and deuterium (H2 and D). In this work, we use new methods to analyze historic and simulated atom probe data, by applying currently available data analysis tools, to optimize solving peak overlaps to improve the quantification of deuterium. This method has been applied to literature data to quantify the deuterium concentrations in a concentration line profile across an α-Zr/deuteride interface.

Nuclear Fission Reactors

1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günther Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Fission ◽  
Fission Reactors
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