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World’s first large scale Accelerator Driven System : A subcritical nuclear reactor you can turn off.
The system can in principle also be designed to use also spend fuel rods and even discarded nuclear warheads.
Imagine that, to generate energy and also turn extremely radioactive material into far less radioactive material with a shorter half life.
And also use thorium.
The system works by applying a particle beam form an accelerator to a subcritical nuclear material. The material turns critical and the fission reaction starts.
Without the particle beam, the fission reaction can not be sustained and will fade away. Very handy to prevent runaway reactions and the not wanted explosions.
Although a meltdown can occur, a runaway fission reaction should not be able to happen since the nuclear material is sub critical on it's own.
So no longer any awful Three mile island , Chernobyl or Fukushima events.
I say if this really works, go for it.
Imagine that, no more dangerous nuclear power plants where we desperately are trying to keep the reaction under control and preventing runaway fission reactions.
We are way better of with a nuclear reactor system that we need to actively keep going then a system we actively need to surpress.
No particle beam is within a short time no fission reaction, simply described.
The particle beam accelerator can be turned on and off.
For more information read about it, the research station is being build in Belgium, i really hope it works. It would be a great way to reduce the global nuclear waste pile and generate energy.
It is called MYRRHA : "Multi-purpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications".
The system can in principle also be designed to use also spend fuel rods and even discarded nuclear warheads.
Imagine that, to generate energy and also turn extremely radioactive material into far less radioactive material with a shorter half life.
And also use thorium.
The system works by applying a particle beam form an accelerator to a subcritical nuclear material. The material turns critical and the fission reaction starts.
Without the particle beam, the fission reaction can not be sustained and will fade away. Very handy to prevent runaway reactions and the not wanted explosions.
Although a meltdown can occur, a runaway fission reaction should not be able to happen since the nuclear material is sub critical on it's own.
So no longer any awful Three mile island , Chernobyl or Fukushima events.
I say if this really works, go for it.
Imagine that, no more dangerous nuclear power plants where we desperately are trying to keep the reaction under control and preventing runaway fission reactions.
We are way better of with a nuclear reactor system that we need to actively keep going then a system we actively need to surpress.
No particle beam is within a short time no fission reaction, simply described.
The particle beam accelerator can be turned on and off.
For more information read about it, the research station is being build in Belgium, i really hope it works. It would be a great way to reduce the global nuclear waste pile and generate energy.
It is called MYRRHA : "Multi-purpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications".
MYRRHA
MYRRHA is the world’s first large scale Accelerator Driven System project at power levels scalable to industrial systems. MYRRHA offers unparalleled research opportunities in spent nuclear fuel, nuclear medicine and fundamental and applied physics. The MYRRHA consortium welcomes international...
www.myrrha.be
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