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Reactor strategies and the energy crisis
| Author | W.Häfele, W.Schikorr |
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| Classification | 6.01.0.20/81 (IMPORTANCE WORLDWIDE) |
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Reactor Strategies and the Energy Crisis by W. Häfele and W. Schikorr (x) International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria. I) Introduction and historical review. Reactor Strategies as a research topic came up in the early sixties. At that time light water reactors LWR, heavy water reactors, advanced thermal reactors and breeders were under development and it was not obvious what their relative role in satisfying a given demand of electricity would be. In certain quarters for instance, there was a strong feeling that an intermediate reactor generation would be required to bridge a gap that was felt to be between the capabilities of light water reactors and that of breeder reactors. The heavy water reactor, the spectral shift reactor and sometimes the high temperature gas cooled reactor (HTGR) were, among others, considered to be candidates for such an intermediate function. Along with it went a reflection on the desired parameters of fast breeder reactors (FBR). Along these lines a traditional attitude was prevailing by asking only for short doubling times of such FBR's. The scheme of a doubling time was introduced by the early pioneers at Argonne National Laboratory and elsewhere. They were under the impression of fairly limited uranium resources. In the early sixties it was clear however that the uranium (x) Institut für Angewandte Systemtechnik und Reaktorphysik, Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe.
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