The physical basis of the fission wave reactor

Abstract

The main idea of slow nuclear fission wave reactor is discussed and short review of the existing works is also presented. The aim of this paper is to clarify the physics of processes, which define the stationary wave of nuclear burning, and to develop the approaches determining the wave parameters. It is shown that the diffusion equation for fluence can be used to describe the stationary and non-stationary processes in the nuclear fission wave. Two conditions of stationary wave existence are first formulated in the paper. The rule of determination of wave velocity as the eigenvalue of boundary problem is also formulated.

Keywords

• reactor
• fission
• autowave
• nuclear burning