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Article: United States: Nuclear weapons and fourth generation reactors.
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- May 12, 2009
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Byline: kusumv03
Integral fast reactors and other fourth generation nuclear power concepts have been gaining attention, in part because of comments by US climate scientist James Hansen.
We need hard-headed evaluation of how to get rid of long-lived nuclear waste and minimise dangers of proliferation and nuclear accidents, Hansen says. Fourth generation nuclear power seems to have the potential to solve the waste problem and minimise the others.
Integral fast reactors (IFRs) are reactors proposed to be fuelled with a metallic alloy of uranium and plutonium, with liquid sodium as the coolant. They re fast because they would use unmoderated ...