New Tool for Proliferation Resistance Evaluation Applied to Uranium and Thorium Fueled Fast Reactor Fuel Cycles

The comparison of nuclear facilities based on their barriers to nuclear material proliferation has remained a difficult endeavor, often requiring expert elicitation for each system under consideration. However, objectively comparing systems using a set of computable metrics to derive a single number...

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Main Author: Metcalf, Richard R.
Other Authors: Charlton, William S.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-747