Sala Seminarios IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)
Sala Seminarios IFIC
Edf. Institutos de Investigación
Descripción
Nuclear energy is presently a major source of the electricity produced in developed countries and is foreseable that it would be also in developing ones.
One of the major concerns about nuclear energy is the disposal of the high level radioactive waste. Presently available solutions consider mainly the long term storage in deep geological repositories.
A significant reduction of the very long term radiotoxicity of the waste to be stored by means of neutron induced reactions is currently actively investigated worldwide as a way of reducing the hazards for the future generations.
In the talk the general ideas about the problematic will be presented , some basic ideas on the field of waste transmutation will be introduced and the role of experimental nuclear physics will be shown.