Research and development long term prospects for advanced thermal and fast breeder reactors and fuel cycle activities
Despite the present slowing down of most of the national nuclear programmes due to various conjunctural causes, nuclear energy is presumably to have in term an increasing role worldwide for electricity production, both in industrialized countries already equipped with nuclear power stations and in countries which intent to enter the nuclear energy route in a short or mid-term perspective. Nuclear energy development will have notably to take into account the following requirements: (1) From a strategic point of view, the major concern is to optimize the use of the world available natural uranium resources. Indeed, even if presently natural uranium appears abundant and inexpensive, it must not be forgotten that in a longer time perspective a growing scarcity of this material will occur unavoidably. (2) From the technical and economical standpoints, future reactors will have to be more reliable, more available, and even more safe, with lower kWh generating costs, than units presently constructed or operated. The paper presents the approach which is followed by France to meet these goals.
- Research Organization:
- Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Paris (France)
- OSTI ID:
- 6360440
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-870905-
- Journal Information:
- Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States), Vol. 56:1; Conference: 6. Pacific Basin nuclear conference, Beijing, China, 7 Sep 1987
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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