増殖の物理高速炉を中心として

Abstract

Compared with thermal reactors, fast reactors have inherent advantages in the breeding properties, since the fast reactor is designed to minimize the moderating materials in its core so as to keep the neutron spectrum hard. Design and calculations of the reactor at high neutron energy necessitate to use the informations for nuclear cross sections in the wide range of neutron energy.In Chap. I and II, energy resources for future and meanings of breeding are discussed. In Chap. III, nuclear constants required in the calculation of fast reactors are reviewed in connection with current nuclear experiments and theories. In Chap. IV and V, parametric studies of a number of types of fuel elements and reactor configurations are surveyed. Different types of fast reactors are described with their advantages in several points. In this survey, the emphasis are put upon the physical pictures of breeding in fast reactor, but not on the calculational techniques.