RUSSIAN AND GERMAN SCIENTISTS DEVELOP PLASMA-BASED RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL UNIT
June 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded Russo-German research project has been developing a plasma neutron source using a so-called 'Gas Dynamic Trap' to incinerate radioactive waste. Scientists from Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP), Novosibirsk, Russia, have been investigating the coupling a sub-critical fission reactor and a DT-fusion plasma device to generate 14 MeV neutrons: the aim to burn and transmutate long-lived isotopes of nuclear waste, including plutonium, minor actinides and ...
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