Conveners
Session 4.2: Recycling as a spent fuel management option
- Anzhelika Khaperskaya (State Corporation ROSATOM, Russian Federation)
- Guoan Ye
Recycling operations have been mastered for long in France, from the plutonium separation to the irradiation of MOX fuel, as France committed itself towards recycling plutonium in PWRs since 1987. Today, the French reactors using MOX are operated according to fuel management allowing equivalent performance of energy supplied with the same reliability as those using UO2 fuels.
The paper first...
Various ways of using reprocessed uranium and plutonium in closed nuclear fuel cycle (NFC) of thermal-neutron reactors by reprocessing spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from nuclear power plants with release of these materials and manufacturing of secondary fuel are described.
In the scope of Sodium Fast Reactor (SFR) spent fuels recycling, the chemical composition and irradiation conditions require a specially-adapted head-end treatment process to quantitatively dissolve the plutonium. Dissolution studies are therefore being performed at the CEA ATALANTE facility in Marcoule research center. The R&D is based on the use of experimental irradiated Phenix fuels. The...
In accordance with the French Act of 28 june 2006 on the sustainable management of radioactive materials and waste, the CEA in partnership with EDF, Orano and Framatome, has studied prospective scenarios using different fuel cycle options: open cycle, recycling of plutonium and uranium in PWRs (current option for the French nuclear power fleet), multiple recycling of plutonium in SFRs and...
According to a series of interstate agreements of the Russian Federation, spent fuel assemblies from the Russian-origin reactors are subject to return to the Russian Federation for interim technological storage and subsequent reprocessing. Meanwhile according to the legislation of the Russian Federation, products of SNF reprocessing are subject to return to the Supplier’s state. The principle...
