1. 41 A fast reactor can not only breed plutonium, but it can also burn it to reduce the burden of safe 37 Such as accelerator-driven systems (ADS); and molten salt reactors (MSR);Kirchner;Transmutation relies heavily on the availability of fast reactors at large scale 40 , and the reprocessing plutonium route in general,1996
2. For details on some of these projects, see;Mancini Locatelli;Pistner and Englert,2013
3. P&T is an alternative waste management strategy that aims to reduce the very long term radiological burden of nuclear energy. It relies on the nearly quantitative recycling of long lived and highly radiotoxic nuclides;Prepared for the Secretary of State's Committee on Atomic Energy