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TY - CONF AU - Johnson, R.P. AU - Abrams, R.J. AU - Cummings, M.A. AU - Kahn, S.A. AU - Lobo, J.D. AU - Roberts, T.J. ED - Liu, Lin ED - Byrd, John M. ED - Neuenschwander, Regis T. ED - Picoreti, Renan ED - Schaa, Volker R. W. TI - Mu*STAR: A System to Consume Spent Nuclear Fuel While Economically Generating Nuclear Power J2 - Proc. of IPAC2021, Campinas, SP, Brazil, 24-28 May 2021 CY - Campinas, SP, Brazil T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 12 LA - english AB - Mu*STAR is a superconducting-accelerator driven, subcritical, molten-salt reactor designed to consume the spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from today’s commercial fleet of light water reactors. In the process of doing so it will: 1. generate electricity in a cost-competitive manner, 2. significantly reduce the waste-stream volume per Gigawatt-hour generated, 3. greatly reduce the radio-toxic lifetime of the waste stream. As many states and countries now prohibit licensing of new nuclear plants until a national strategy has been established for the long-term disposal of their nuclear waste, Mu*STAR can be an important enabler for new nuclear facilities. This is especially important in the light of climate change, as nuclear energy is the only carbon-free technology for a base-load generation that is readily expandable. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 4499 EP - 4501 KW - site KW - target KW - neutron KW - operation KW - proton DA - 2021/08 PY - 2021 SN - 2673-5490 SN - 978-3-95450-214-1 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-THPAB364 UR - https://jacow.org/ipac2021/papers/thpab364.pdf ER -