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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

  1. 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

  2. Electricity cost Coal-Proton*Power 50 % CO2 comparison Proton*Power coal site 0% Capital CO2 Fixed O & M Gas combined cycle 50% CO2 Variable O & M Proton*Power New site 0% Fuel CO2 New Tax credit Coal 100 % CO2 LWR uranium 0% CO2 Wind 0% CO2 PV - Thin film utility 0 % CO2 With storage 0 50 100 150 Electricity cost ($ per MWh)

  4. Eliminating Weapons-Useful Pu Using GEM*STAR Excess W-Pu (90 tons 239 Pu) (22,500 weapons ) Reactor Spent Fuel 80,000 tons (800 tons of Pu) (200,000 weapons ) Naval Reactor Spent Fuel (150 tons 235 U) (15,000 weapons ) Thorium Reactor Test Fuel (1 ton 233 U) (100 weapons) Conversion to T ransuranic Waste Intended for WIPP (15 tons 239 Pu) (3750 weapons) actinide and f. p. fluoride salt Total U. S. potential 241,000 weapons (Using MOX GEM*STAR accelerator modified) Enrichment GEM*STAR UF4 PuF3 UF4 subcritical Reprocessing reactor GEM* LWR FBR SMR STAR Nuclear technology landscape Mined 1,000 years Ocean Recycling engineered uranium Uranium without storage Nuclear reprocessing underground technology to 12% 242 Pu in Pu Then choose oblivion Dissolved Geologic salt at sea storage (unrecoverable ) (recoverable)

  5. U. S. carbon 700 Emissions Getting to Zero Carbon with GEM*STAR 600 65 % U. S. Gigawatt electric 500 GEM*STAR natural uranium fuel 400 GEM*STAR Coal and natural gas Spent LWR fuel 300 Present-day nuclear (LWRs) 200 Wind and solar 100 GEM*STAR weapons plutonium 0 2025 2045 2065 2085 2105 U. S. Carbon Year Emissions 0 %

  6. 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 7 Li enrichment 3 Sale of 7 Li 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

  8. Burn-up weighted Pu isotopes 1 W-Pu burned once through GEM*STAR reduces Pu mass by 3, 0.9 and with changed isotopic distribution 0.8 reduces weapons by 10 0.7 Twice through GEM*STAR 0.6 reduces Pu mass by 10 and reduces weapons by 50 0.5 0.4 0.3 W-Pu Thru FBR 0.2 Once thru LWR 0.1 Twice thu LWR 0 Once thru GEM*STAR 239 Twice thru GEM*STAR 240 241 242

  9. Spontaneous Fission 1 97 % W-Pu will yield Neutron Impact at least 5 KT 0.9 on Yield Probability with properly timed Implosion speed 0.8 twice Trinity 88 % of W-Pu thru fast reactors 3 kg W-Pu 0.7 will yield at least 5 KT with properly timed 0.6 neutron pulse 47 % of LWR-burned W-Pu 0.5 will yield at least 5 KT 0.4 with only spontaneous fission neutrons 0.3 0.2 No burning 34 tons (3 kg) Once through FBR 39 tons (4.14… 0.1 Once MOX in LWR 37.5 tons (5.24… Once GEM*STAR 10 tons (8.5 kg) 0 Twice MOX in LWR 40 tons (10 kg) Dud 1 to 2.5 2.5 to 5 5 to 10 10 to 20 Twice GEM*STAR 3.4 tons (15.6… 20 Yield in kilotons

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