plutonium cycle

基本解释

Finally, the reprocessing that occurs in a closed fuel cycle produces plutonium that can be diverted for use in nuclear weapons.
最后，封闭式燃料循环中的再制作过程会产生钸，而钸可能会被用于核子武器。
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.
对惯性约束混合堆的功率循环，氚钚生产的燃料循环和混合堆作为聚变能源的前期应用的可能性作了简要的介绍。

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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