Conveners
Session 7.2: Challenges in an integrated approach for the back-end system
- cecile evans (france)
- Chetan Parkash Kaushik (BARC)
Used fuel is generated from the operation of nuclear reactors of all types. The nuclear industry is currently implementing strategies to ensure the safe and cost-effective management of this used fuel. Currently, there exist two strategies for managing used fuel: the “open cycle” and “closed cycle”. Depending on a number of drivers, countries will engage in one of these alternatives, but may...
The “Cycle Impact” approach was launched at the end of the 1990s on the French Nuclear Safety Authority’s initiative (ASN): EDF, in collaboration with its industrial French partners Orano and Andra, has to identify and anticipate actions in order to guarantee a consistent nuclear fuel cycle management in the mid-term. The impacts of fuel design, characteristics and management and nuclear...
At present the Mining and Chemical Combine is creating an industrial infrastructure of the closed nuclear fuel cycle that is capable of repeated and environmentally safe involvement of reprocessed fuel components in the nuclear fuel cycle.
The spent nuclear fuel (SNF) management infrastructure created presently at the enterprise involves the facilities as follows.
- A water-cooled (wet)...
The paper encourages not only acknowledging but pro-actively addressing the issues and opportunities resulting from the uncertainty relative to how and when sufficient repository capacity becomes available. It draws on the work of a former IAEA consultancy tasked with addressing very long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) as well as current strategic planning and associated initiatives...
As the first phase of the worldwide nuclear fleet is now approaching 40 years of operation, the Back end of the fuel cycle is becoming a forefront focus for utilities having to deal with pool saturation, reactor shutdowns, and requirements for extended periods of interim storage following significant deferral in the implementation of centralized interim storage or geological disposal...
National decisions about the management of spent nuclear fuel have global consequences for safety, security, and nonproliferation. For the past four years, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) has been catalyzing a spent fuel management partnership in the Pacific Rim – East Asia, the United States and Canada – a region with more than 230 power reactors and 170,000+ tons of spent fuel as of...
