Recently, many countries start to promulgate their nuclear program all over the world. The negative issue facing those newcomers is public apprehensions about the management of nuclear and radiological activities, that any failure in their management may cause harmful radiological consequences affect directly to human health and environment. The misunderstanding of the public is considered a...
The management of Spent Fuel (SF) is one of the key challenges for nuclear power plant (NPP) operators to tackle, especially in a context of ‘wait-and-see’-policies as generically practiced in many countries. From a scientific-technical perspective, mature options to manage this SF do already exist and can be deployed, being it direct disposal of the SF or reprocessing and subsequent disposal...
The fabrication of EDF's nuclear fuels and their management once used, as well as associated waste, require many industrial operations, qualified as "fuel cycle".
As requested by the French nuclear safety authority (ASN) since 2000, EDF in collaboration with its industrial French partners (Orano Cycle, Framatome, Andra) elaborates periodically a so-called "Impact Cycle" file. This document...
The paper analyzes different strategies for funding the disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF). The approach is based on the idea that back-end liabilities should be funded entirely from the cash flow generated during the operation of the nuclear power plant (NPP); future generations should not be burdened with paying the costs of managing spent fuel that was used to benefit earlier generations....
The spent fuel management of nuclear power reactor has two major concerns regarding storage and disposal. Law should comment specifically on the maximum duration of storage of spent fuel and it should ensure that no extended storages will deemed to be de facto disposal. The radioactive waste has potential to extend over several thousand years, it’s always better to have sound spent fuel...
The obligation of used nuclear fuel (UNF) management lies with the NPP operator, and further – with the country which origins it. International Agreements like IAEA Joint Convention and the EU Directive 2011/70/Euratom all state that final wastes should be disposed of in the country where it is generated. Therefore, the ultimate responsibility for the management of radioactive waste (RW) lies...
This work aims to describe the strategies of management of spent fuel assemblies in the CNAAA power plants adopted as a function of the depletion of the storage capacity of their spent fuel pools. Having chosen the option of dry storage this has the intention to describe the main participants, the Brazilian nuclear policing, the spent fuel storages, the strategy adopted to manage the decrease...
