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VNECA Presentation Second Round of Funding for GEM*STAR (Proton*Power) $19 million from ADNA Corporation Accelerator Driven Neutron Applications Presented by Charles D. Bowman, Ph. D. and Ganapati Myneni Ph. D. March 20, 2018 Richmond, VA

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VNECA Presentation Second Round of Funding for GEM*STAR (Proton*Power) $19 million

Presented by Charles D. Bowman, Ph. D. and Ganapati Myneni Ph. D. March 20, 2018 Richmond, VA

from

ADNA Corporation

Accelerator Driven Neutron Applications

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50 100 150 PV - Thin film utility 0 % CO2 Wind 0% CO2 LWR uranium 0% CO2 Coal 100 % CO2 Proton*Power New site 0% CO2 Gas combined cycle 50% CO2 Proton*Power coal site 0% CO2 Coal-Proton*Power 50 % CO2

Electricity cost ($ per MWh) Electricity cost comparison

Capital Fixed O & M Variable O & M Fuel New Tax credit With storage

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Excess W-Pu (90 tons 239Pu) (22,500 weapons) Reactor Spent Fuel 80,000 tons (800 tons of Pu) (200,000 weapons) Naval Reactor Spent Fuel (150 tons 235U) (15,000 weapons) Thorium Reactor Test Fuel (1 ton 233U) (100 weapons)

Transuranic Waste Intended for WIPP (15 tons 239Pu) (3750 weapons)

Conversion to actinide and f.

  • p. fluoride salt

(Using MOX modified)

UF4 PuF3 UF4

GEM*STAR subcritical reactor

Recycling without reprocessing to 12% 242Pu in Pu

1,000 years engineered storage underground

Dissolved salt at sea (unrecoverable) Geologic storage (recoverable) Mined uranium Ocean Uranium

GEM* STAR

Enrichment Reprocessing

LWR FBR SMR

Nuclear technology landscape Nuclear technology

  • blivion

GEM*STAR accelerator

Eliminating Weapons-Useful Pu Using GEM*STAR

Then choose Total U. S. potential 241,000 weapons

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100 200 300 400 500 600 700 2025 2045 2065 2085 2105

  • U. S. Gigawatt electric

Year

  • U. S. carbon

Emissions 65 %

Coal and natural gas Wind and solar GEM*STAR weapons plutonium GEM*STAR Spent LWR fuel GEM*STAR natural uranium fuel Present-day nuclear (LWRs)

  • U. S. Carbon

Emissions 0 %

Getting to Zero Carbon with GEM*STAR

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Integration by 2020 Towards GEM*STAR Demo in 2023 Funding for 2018 - 2020

Molten Salt $3 Sales of salt for molten salt for reactors Wood-to-Charcoal-to-diesel (BCLF) 1 Sale of non-nuclear activated charcoal

7Li enrichment

3 Sale of 7Li to today’s reactors for chem. balance Accelerator technology 3 Accelerator collaboration with EU GEM*STAR design 9 Construction plans for subcritical facility Total $19 million Final GEM*STAR demo needs $350 million in 2020 ($70 million private and 280 million SBA loan

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0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 239 240 241 242

Twice thru GEM*STAR Once thru GEM*STAR Twice thu LWR Once thru LWR Thru FBR W-Pu

Burn-up weighted Pu isotopes

W-Pu burned once through GEM*STAR reduces Pu mass by 3, and with changed isotopic distribution reduces weapons by 10 Twice through GEM*STAR reduces Pu mass by 10 and reduces weapons by 50

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Twice GEM*STAR 3.4 tons (15.6… Twice MOX in LWR 40 tons (10 kg) Once GEM*STAR 10 tons (8.5 kg) Once MOX in LWR 37.5 tons (5.24… Once through FBR 39 tons (4.14… No burning 34 tons (3 kg)

0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 Dud 1 to 2.5 2.5 to 5 5 to 10 10 to 20 20

Yield in kilotons

Spontaneous Fission Neutron Impact

  • n Yield Probability

Implosion speed twice Trinity 3 kg W-Pu

47 % of LWR-burned W-Pu will yield at least 5 KT with only spontaneous fission neutrons 88 % of W-Pu thru fast reactors will yield at least 5 KT with properly timed neutron pulse 97 % W-Pu will yield at least 5 KT with properly timed