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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=SL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Vabimo vas na 4. predavanje iz sklopa "Kolokviji na IJS" v letu 2017/18, ki bo <strong><span style='color:red'>v sredo, 17. januarja 2018, ob 13. uri </span></strong><span style='color:red'>v Veliki predavalnici Instituta »Jožef Stefan«</span>  na Jamovi cesti 39 v Ljubljani. Napovednik predavanja najdete tudi na naslovu <a href="http://www.ijs.si/ijsw/Koledar_prireditev">http://www.ijs.si/ijsw/Koledar_prireditev</a>, posnetke preteklih predavanj<span style='color:blue'> </span>pa na <a href="http://videolectures.net/kolokviji_ijs">http://videolectures.net/kolokviji_ijs</a>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>prof. dr. Masaki Saito<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokio, Japonska<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:16.0pt'>Proizvodnja zaščitenega plutonija s transmutacijo manjšinskih aktinidov<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify'>Proizvodnja zaščitenega plutonija, znana pod angleškim imenom “Protected Plutonium Production” in kratico P3 je način povečanja odpornosti plutonija proti proliferaciji, ki sloni na transmutaciji manjšinskih aktinidov. Povečanje proizvodnje plutonija 238 v termičnih reaktorjih z dopiranjem goriva iz urana z majhnimi količinami manjšinskih aktinidov, kot sta  neptunij 237 ali americij 241, ki imata velik presek za zajetje nevtronov, zelo učinkovito oteži rabo goriva za izdelavo in vzdrževanje jedrskega orožja, saj vključuje veliko razpadno toploto in veliko število nevtronov, ki nastanejo pri spontanem razcepu jeder. Izjemno kakovosten plutonij, primeren za izdelavo orožja, sicer lahko dobimo v prvi steni  običajnega reaktorja s tekočim ali nasutim gorivom. S povečanjem deleža plutonija 238 v celotnem plutoniju z dopiranjem svežega goriva z manjšinskimi aktinidi bi lahko v teh reaktorjih pridobivali tudi zaščiteni plutonij z visoko odpornostjo proti proliferaciji.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify'>Teoretično napoved mehanizma P3 so potrdili z obsevalnimi testi vzorcev neptunija in zmesi neptunija in urana v Eksperimentalnem hitrem reaktorju Joyo (JAEA) oziroma v Naprednem termičnem reaktorju (INL). Eksperimentalni rezultati se lepo skladajo s teorijo. Odpornost plutonija proti proliferaciji bi lahko ovrednotili z novo cenilno funkcijo, imenovano “privlačnost” (“attractiveness”) in definirano kot razmerje potenciala za razpadni donos in tehnološke zahtevnosti jedrske eksplozivne naprave, in s snovnimi lastnostmi materiala. Mehanizem P3 predstavlja alternativno rabo manjšinskih aktinidov namesto zakopavanja ali sežiga ob jedrskem razpadu. V manjšinskih aktinidih torej lahko vidimo koristne materiale, s katerimi lahko povečamo odpornost plutonija v termičnih in hitrih oplodnih reaktorjih proti proliferaciji za mir in trajnostni napredek v prihodnosti.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify'>Predavanje bo v angleščini.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red'>Lepo vabljeni!</span></strong><strong><span style='font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:SL'><br clear=all style='page-break-before:always'></span><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>We invite you to the 4th Institute colloquium in the academic year 2017/18. The colloquium will be held </span><b><span style='color:red'>on Wednesday January 17, 2018 at 1 PM</span></b><span style='color:red'> in <b>the main Institute lecture hall</b></span><span style='color:black'>, Jamova 39, Ljubljana. To read the abstract click  </span><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.ijs.si/ijsw/Koledar_prireditev">http://www.ijs.si/ijsw/Koledar_prireditev</a>. </span><span style='color:black'>Past colloquia are posted on</span><span style='color:#1F497D'>  <a href="http://videolectures.net/kolokviji_ijs">http://videolectures.net/kolokviji_ijs</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=M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