User:Mdj/Seaborg Technologies

Seaborg Technologies is a nuclear energy design company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Seaborg Technologies is developing a type of nuclear reactor that burns spent nuclear fuel from conventional nuclear power plants, called the Seaborg Wasteburner (SWaB). Unlike current commercial reactor designs, the Wasteburner is based on Molten Salt Reactor technology. While consuming spent nuclear fuel the SWaB breeds new fuel from Thorium through the thorium fuel-cycle.

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Wasteburner
The Wasteburner is a high temperature, single salt, thermal Molten Salt Reactor designed to go critical on a combination of thorium and nuclear waste from conventional nuclear reactors. Thorium produces much less of the long lived and problematic transuranic waste (e.g. plutonium and americium) than conventional reactor fuel, even when running a closed fuel cycle. As a consequence the core produces much less transuranic waste than it consumes – hence a waste-burner. The MSW design is modular and the reactor core is estimated to be replaced every 6–10 years, however, the fuel will not be replaced and will burn for the entire power plant lifetime. The first version of the Seaborg core is planned to produce 50 MWth power and is shown to reduce the amount of transuranic waste in the world by approximately 1 ton (not considering natural decays) over its 60 years power plant lifetime. After 60 years the 233U concentration in the fuel salt is high enough to initiate a closed thorium fuel cycle in the next generation power plant