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REMARKS ON KINETICS PARAMETERS OF A<br />

SUB-CRITICAL REACTOR FOR NUCLEAR WASTE INCINERATION<br />

Juan Blázquez<br />

Department of <strong>Nuclear</strong> Fission, CIEMAT,<br />

22, Complutense Av., 28040 Madrid, Spain<br />

Abstract<br />

Accelerator driven systems (ADS) are being designed as nuclear waste incinerator in order to be<br />

complementary with the proposed geological disposal. When the ADS is based on a highly<br />

sub-critical reactor, some elementary concepts designed for critical reactors need to be reconsidered:<br />

• How much sub-critical means highly sub-critical?<br />

• Is the spallation source really external?<br />

• Are the kinetics parameters depending on the neutron source?<br />

• Can standard neutron noise techniques be used when the neutron source is not Poisson-like?<br />

The article remarks the subtleties behind those questions aiming to clarify future experiments with<br />

spallation source focused to nuclear waste incineration.<br />

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