plutonium cycle

基本解釋

Finally, the reprocessing that occurs in a closed fuel cycle produces plutonium that can be diverted for use in nuclear weapons.
最後，封閉式燃料循環(huán)中的再制作過程會産生鈽，而鈽可能會被用於核子武器。
In this paper the power flow, tritium and plutonium fuel cycle and the possibility of earlier application of the hybrid reactor as fusion energy source have been introduce briefly.
對慣性約束混郃堆的功率循環(huán)，氚鈈生産的燃料循環(huán)和混郃堆作爲(wèi)聚變能源的前期應(yīng)用的可能性作了簡要的介紹。

Given a start with some other fissile material (U-233, U-235 or Pu-239) as a driver, a breeding cycle similar to but more efficient than that with U-238 and plutonium (in normal, slow neutron reactors) can be set up. (The driver fuels provide all the neutrons initially, but are progressively supplemented by U-233 as it forms from the thorium.) However, there are also features of the neutron economy which counter this advantage.
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