Realistic Challenges to Optimize the Closed Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Conference
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OSTI ID:21167907
- Waste Management and Fuel Cycle Research Center, Tokai Works, Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute, 4-33 Tokai-Mura, Naka, IBARAKI, 319-1194 (Japan)
The first generation nuclear fuel cycle system will be closed in Japan by 2010 with the successful combination of LWR-MOX, industrial operation of reprocessing and MOX fuel fabrication plants, interim storage of spent fuel, and plans for the location of final disposal of radioactive wastes. To tailor nuclear power as the globally sustainable and environmentally benign energy source for future society, however, an advanced fuel cycle option is needed that is well suited to the fast reactor. It should recycle fissile materials of plutonium and uranium whilst transmuting minor actinides and generating minimum waste. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 21167907
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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