Self-consistent model of nuclear power development and fuel cycle

The use of a high-boiling heat-transfer metal (lead) deterministically ensures sufficient nuclear, engineering, and ecological safety in design and hypothetical accidents. The transmutation nuclear fuel cycle makes global environmental safety closer, when the equivalent activity of the long-lived components of hot waste is lower than, or close to, that of the raw material used. When such equality is reached, nuclear power can be considered to be waste-free, in a sense. A conceptual model envisaging a large-scale, long-term nuclear energy industry is proposed as a solution to the aforementioned problems.