Total kinetic energy of fission fragments in heavy actinide fission

Systematics of fission fragment total kinetic energy release.

Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning

In Japan, R&D activities for partitioning and transmutation (P&T) have been promoted under the OMEGA programme for more than 15 years. These activities were reviewed by the Atomic Energy Commission in Japan in 2000. In accordance with the results of the review, three institutes, the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) and the Centr...

Velocity fluctuations of fission fragments

We propose event by event velocity fluctuations of nuclear fission fragments as an additional interesting observable that gives access to the nuclear temperature in an independent way from spectral measurements and relates the diffusion and friction coefficients for the relative fragment coordinate in Kramer-like models (in which some aspects of fission can be understood as the diffusion of a c...

Fission of Heavy Elements Induced by Medium High Energy Protons

In this paper is presented a discussion of fission induced in heavy elements (uranium) by protons with kinetic energies below about 400 MeV with the main emphasis on fission with protons of a few hundred MeV energy *. Thus, reactions where meson interference becomes of any importance are not considered. Even if fission is the main reaction in heavy nuclei this can not be discussed without consi...

Overview of Fission Safety for Laser ICF Fission Energy

This paper reviews fission safety design principles and approaches for coupling inertial confinement fusion (ICF) to a subcritical fission blanket, in Laser ICF Fission Energy (LIFE) power plants. LIFE power plants use fuel derived from either spent fuel from fission reactors, or from natural uranium or thorium. By using fusion neutrons, LIFE plants can fission a large fraction of the heavy met...