Plutonium How Nuclear Power's Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare /

• Main Authors: von Hippel, Frank (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Takubo, Masafumi (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Kang, Jungmin (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Physics.; Energy.; Nuclear energy.; Nuclear chemistry.; Science-Social aspects.; Popular Science in Physics.; Popular Science in Energy.; Nuclear Energy.; Nuclear Chemistry.; Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education.

This book provides a readable and thought-provoking analysis of the issues surrounding nuclear fuel reprocessing and fast-neutron reactors, including discussion of resources, economics, radiological risk and resistance to nuclear proliferation. It describes the history and science behind reprocessin...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Overview
• 2 The dream: a future powered by plutonium
• 3 Civilian plutonium separation and nuclear-weapon proliferation
• 4 Continuation of plutonium separation without breeder reactors
• 5 A much worse accident that almost happened in Fukushima: A fire in a dense-packed spent fuel pool
• 6 Early dry-cask storage: A safer alternative to dense-packed pools and reprocessing
• 7 Deep disposal of spent fuel without reprocessing
• 8 The case for a ban on reprocessing
• Bibliography
• Index. .