Overview
Presents state-of-the-art technologies to resolve nuclear back-end issues
Includes policies for the nuclear fuel cycle after the Fukushima accident
Proposes a variety of nuclear reactor systems for future development
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Next-Generation Reactor Systems: Development of New Reactor Concepts of LWR or FBR for the Next-Generation Nuclear Fuel Cycle
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Reactor Physics Studies for Post-Fukushima Accident Nuclear Energy: Studies from the Reactor Physics Aspect for Back-End Issues Such as Treatment of Debris from the Fukushima Accident
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Nuclear Fuel Cycle Policy and Technologies: National Policy, Current Status, Future Prospects and Public Acceptance of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Including Geological Disposal
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Environmental Radioactivity: Development of Radioactivity Measurement Methods and Activity of Radionuclides in the Environment Monitored After the Accidents at TEPCO’s Nuclear Power Stations
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Treatment of Radioactive Waste: Reduction of the Radioactivity or Volume of Nuclear Wastes
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About this book
This book covers essential aspects of transmutation technologies, highlighting especially the advances in Japan. The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has caused us to focus attention on a large amount of spent nuclear fuels stored in NPPs. In addition, public anxiety regarding the treatment and disposal of high-level radioactive wastes that require long-term control is growing. The Japanese policy on the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle is still unpredictable in the aftermath of the accident. Therefore, research and development for enhancing the safety of various processes involved in nuclear energy production are being actively pursued worldwide. In particular, nuclear transmutation technology has been drawing significant attention after the accident.
This publication is timely with the following highlights: 1) Development of accelerator-driven systems (ADSs), which is a brand-new reactor concept for transmutation of highly radioactive wastes; 2) Nuclear reactor systems from the point of view of the nuclear fuel cycle. How to reduce nuclear wastes or how to treat them including the debris from TEPCO’s Fukushima nuclear power stations is discussed; and 3) Environmental radioactivity, radioactive waste treatment and geological disposal policy.
State-of-the-art technologies for overall back-end issues of the nuclear fuel cycle as well as the technologies of transmutation are presented here. The chapter authors are actively involved in the development of ADSs and transmutation-related technologies. The future of the back-end issues in Japan is very uncertain after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP and this book provides an opportunity for readers to consider the future direction of those issues.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nuclear Back-end and Transmutation Technology for Waste Disposal
Book Subtitle: Beyond the Fukushima Accident
Editors: Ken Nakajima
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55111-9
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2015
License: CC BY-NC
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55110-2Published: 19 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56268-9Published: 27 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55111-9Published: 05 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 341
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 129 illustrations in colour
Topics: Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection, Nuclear Energy, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Industrial Pollution Prevention