Conveners
Session 5.1: Impacts of advanced nuclear energy systems on the back-end of the fuel cycle
- Tomohiro Okamura
- Alexander Bychkov
Various roadmap exercises have been undertaken during the past 2 decades relating to the development and deployment of 'advanced' nuclear energy systems, particularly so-called "Generation-IV", to improve the sustainability of nuclear energy. While nuclear energy is already among the most sustainable energy conversion technologies, the spent fuel (SF) management particularly remains a major...
Partitioning and Transmutation technology is expected to be effective to mitigate the burden of the high-level waste (HLW) disposal by reducing the radiological toxicity and heat generation. Based on the Strategic Energy Plan of Japan, research and development (R&D) on P&T are being accelerated in Japan. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has been continuously implementing R&D on P&T...
The current open nuclear fuel cycle uses only a few percent of the energy contained in uranium. This efficiency can be greatly improved through the recycling of spent fuel (as done today in France for instance), including, in the longer term, multi-recycling strategies to be deployed in fast reactors. In this context, and in the continuity of the FP7 EURATOM SACSESS project, GENIORS addresses...
Closed nuclear fuel cycle (CNFC) with inherent safety fast reactors (FR) is a new integrated product in the branch of atomic energy. A pilot demonstration power complex with reactor unit (BREST-OD-300) with lead coolant is under constriction at the Siberian Chemical Combine in frame of the “PRORYV” project. This pilot demonstration power complex includes not only fast reactor but also...
India has adopted a ‘closed fuel cycle’ considering spent fuel a material of resource. This has enabled not only optimally utilising the scarce resource of Uranium but also helped in efficient management of radioactive-waste and opening the possibilities for tapping the energy of various useful radio-isotopes present in waste for societal benefits which otherwise are not available in nature....
