The Sword of Heroes

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Nuclear Fission without the Mess - a new way of splitting the atom? Present day nuclear power reactors are driven by fission, making them controversial for reasons of environmental safety and abuse for weapons production. A team of scientists is working on a new type of reactor called the Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactor (ADSR). It combines a particle accelerator with low-grade fissionable material (e.g. radioactive waste) to generate energy without any danger of a runaway scenario.

The concept was first proposed in 1993 by Nobel prizewinning physicist Carlo Rubbia. The basic idea – and what distinguishes it from all other nuclear reactors – is the coupling of a particle accelerator, like the ones at Cern, with the reactor core.

Scientists […] are working towards an entirely new type of nuclear reactor: one that could be operated safely and without generating long-lived radioactive waste. This new reactor could even consume the toxic waste generated by conventional nuclear reactors, removing it from the ecosphere.

The concept was first proposed in 1993

first proposed in 1993

1993