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Materials Issues for Generation IV Systems

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-1-4020-8422-5

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Global warming, shortage of low-cost oil resources and the increasing demand for energy are currently controlling the world's economic expansion while often opposing desires for sustainable and peaceful development. In this context, atomic energy satisfactorily fulfills the criteria of low carbon gas production and high overall yield. However, in the absence of industrial fast-breeders the use of nuclear fuel is not optimal, and the production of high activity waste materials is at a maximum. These are the principal reasons for the development of a new, fourth generation of nuclear reactors, minimizing the undesirable side-effects of current nuclear energy production technology while increasing yields by increasing operation temperatures and opening the way for the industrial production of hydrogen through the decomposition of water.


Subject: Chemistry and Materials Science, Diffusion, Molten Salt Reactor, Oxidation, computer, computer simulation, condensed matter, construction, kinetics, magnetism, modeling, nuclear energy, simulation, thermodynamics