Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 282365, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/282365
Research Article

Closed Fuel Cycle and Minor Actinide Multirecycling in a Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor

W. F. G. van Rooijen1 and J. L. Kloosterman2

1Nuclear & Radiological Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 801 Ferst Dr. NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405, USA
2Radiation, Radionuclides and Reactors (R3) Department, Section Physics of Nuclear Reactors, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 15 2629 JB Delft, The Netherlands

Received 27 January 2009; Accepted 2 March 2009

Academic Editor: Guglielmo Lomonaco

Copyright © 2009 W. F. G. van Rooijen and J. L. Kloosterman. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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